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Global Taiwanese : Asian skilled labour migrants in a changing world /

In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates living in London and Toronto, along with globally networked professionals in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks. Based on a three-year-long ethno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Fiona (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Taiwanese > England > London.
Taiwanese > Ontario > Toronto.
Taiwanese > Taiwan > Taipei.
Taiwanese > Ethnic identity.
Social networks.
Table of Contents:
  • Why Taiwan? Taiwanese Identity and the Chinese Diaspora
  • The Network Society and Taiwanese Skilled Labour Migration
  • Signs and Meanings: Defining and Maintaining Taiwanese Identity
  • London: The City of Sojourners
  • Toronto: The City of Settlers
  • Toronto: The City of Settlers
  • Cutting Bamboo: Migrants and Transnational Ethnic Networks
  • The Social Network: Migrants and Transnational Networking Organizations
  • The Social Network: Migrants and Transnational Networking Organizations
  • Taiwan in the Net: Identities in Perspective.