Return migration and identity : a global phenomenon, a Hong Kong case /

Features interviews covering the anxieties, anticipations, hardships, and flexible world perspectives of migrants and their families, as well as friends and co-workers, of migration and remigration.

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Main Author: Sussman, Nan M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aberdeen, Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch 1. A short history of two hundred years of Hong Kong migration and identity
  • ch 2. Sojourner adjustment and adaptation to new cultures : art, literature, and the social science perspective on identity
  • ch 3. Returning home : cultural transitions and the identity model
  • ch 4. Results from the Hong Kong remigration project : departing, adjusting, returning
  • ch 5. Additive identity
  • ch 6. Subtractive identity
  • ch 7. Global and affirmative identities
  • ch 8. Remigrants and family life
  • ch 9. Remigrants and professional life
  • ch 10. Confucius and Socrates : ancient philosophies, migration, and cultural identity
  • ch 11. The new Hong Kong boomerang.