Hong Kong movers and stayers narratives of family migration
Hong Kong institutions and family migration -- Hong Kong's institutional background -- pt. 1. Cosmopolitan emigrants -- The Luk family : exit and return of emigrant planners -- The Chou and Leung families : immigrant entrepreneurs -- Francis Kwong, manager : the professional's dilemma -- p...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Urbana, Ill. u.a.
Univ. of Illinois Press
c 2010
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Schriftenreihe: | Studies of world migrations
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Zusammenfassung: | Hong Kong institutions and family migration -- Hong Kong's institutional background -- pt. 1. Cosmopolitan emigrants -- The Luk family : exit and return of emigrant planners -- The Chou and Leung families : immigrant entrepreneurs -- Francis Kwong, manager : the professional's dilemma -- pt. 2. The rooted : ties to Hong Kong deter migration -- The Gungs : Hong Kong locals -- The Ongs : a non-emigrant trading family -- The Wan family : the extended family emigrates -- pt. 3. Working class families : unlikely emigrants -- The Szeto family : "nowhere to run" -- The Hung family : cancelled migration dreams -- The Chia family : constructing Hong Kong as the place to be -- Conclusion: Movers and stayers. Institutional theory and family migration -- Hong Kong's institutional background -- pt. 1. Cosmopolitan emigrants -- The Luk family : exit and return of emigrant planners -- The Chou and Leung families : immigrant entrepreneurs -- Francis Kwong : the professional's dilemma -- pt. 2. The rooted : ties to Hong Kong deter migration -- The Gung family : Hong Kong locals -- The Ongs : a nonemigrant trading family -- Brian Wan : the extended family emigrates -- pt. 3. Working class families : unlikely emigrants -- The Szeto family : nowhere to run -- The Hung family : cancelled migration dreams -- The Chia brothers : constructing Hong Kong as the place to be -- Conclusion: Movers and stayers |
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Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [235] - 255 und Index |
Beschreibung: | VIII, 259 S. |
ISBN: | 0252077040 0-252-07704-0 0252035186 0-252-03518-6 9780252077043 978-0-252-07704-3 9780252035180 978-0-252-03518-0 |