Transient Migrants at the Crossroads of China’s Global Future
Transient Migrants at the Crossroads of China’s Global Future
China has witnessed a remarkable growth in its foreign population over the past two decades. Even though they are still quite few in number at the moment, foreigners in China are being increasingly recognized and studied in the broad field of migration studies. Although they have neither the hope nor the desire to become permanent residents of China, most foreigners nonetheless continue to be construed as ‘immigrants’ or ‘migrants’ in both the scholarly and policy-oriented literature. This special issue suggests that applying these terms without problematizing them hinders our understanding of foreigners in the real-world context, in which an increasing number of people have become transient migrants in China and else-where. By bringing together articles that depict these foreigners’ lives as transient everywhere they go, this special issue aims to develop a new analytical lens through which ongoing global dynamisms in demography, politics and economy – particu-larly those that matter much to the future of both foreigners and China – can be simultaneously captured.
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Cheuk, Ka Kin
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Cheuk, Ka Kin
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Cheuk, Ka Kin
(2019)
Transient Migrants at the Crossroads of China’s Global Future.
Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 3 (1), .
(doi:10.1386/TJTM.3.1.3_2).
Abstract
China has witnessed a remarkable growth in its foreign population over the past two decades. Even though they are still quite few in number at the moment, foreigners in China are being increasingly recognized and studied in the broad field of migration studies. Although they have neither the hope nor the desire to become permanent residents of China, most foreigners nonetheless continue to be construed as ‘immigrants’ or ‘migrants’ in both the scholarly and policy-oriented literature. This special issue suggests that applying these terms without problematizing them hinders our understanding of foreigners in the real-world context, in which an increasing number of people have become transient migrants in China and else-where. By bringing together articles that depict these foreigners’ lives as transient everywhere they go, this special issue aims to develop a new analytical lens through which ongoing global dynamisms in demography, politics and economy – particu-larly those that matter much to the future of both foreigners and China – can be simultaneously captured.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 1 March 2019
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This special issue began with a conference panel on international migrants in China at the 2017 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC. I thank the World Anthropologies Travel Grant Award for sponsoring my participation in this conference. I owe an intellectual debt to our panel discussant Jatin Dua, who generously gave thoughtful feedback on our work. I am also indebted to my mentors Frank Pieke, Biao Xiang and Magnus Marsden, whose writings on global migration are always an inspiration. On behalf of all the contributors to this special issue, I wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and constructive criticism on the articles. Part of the research that I conducted for the special issue was funded by Leiden University’s research consortium titled Immigration and the Transformation of Chinese Society (2015–17) and Rice University’s Chao Center for Asian Studies (2019), for which I am grateful.
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