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- Return Migration and Identity: A Global Phenomenon, A Hong Kong Case
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
summary
The global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. This work of cross-cultural psychology explores many personal stories of return migration. The author captures in dozens of interviews the anxieties, anticipations, hardships and flexible world perspectives of migrants and their families as well as friends and co-workers. The book examines cultural identity shifts and population flows during a critical juncture in Hong Kong history between the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 and the early years of Hong Kong’s new status as a special administrative region after 1997. Nearly a million residents of Hong Kong migrated to North America, Europe and Australia in the 1990s. These interviews and analyses help illustrate individual choices and identity profiles during this period of unusual cultural flexibility and behavioral adjustment.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-5
- Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Preface and acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- About the Author
- pp. xiii-xiv
- 3 - Returning home
- pp. 59-90
- 5 - Additive identity
- pp. 131-160
- 6 - Subtractive identity
- pp. 161-176
- 7 - Global and affirmative identities
- pp. 177-198
- 8 - Remigrants and family life
- pp. 199-214
- 9 - Remigrants and professional life
- pp. 215-231
- 10 - Confucius and Socrates
- pp. 233-247
- 11 - The new Hong Kong boomerang
- pp. 249-262
- Appendix C - Quantitative analysis
- pp. 290-302
- References
- pp. 317-330
Additional Information
ISBN
9789888053568
Related ISBN(s)
9789888028832
MARC Record
OCLC
801847848
Pages
364
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No