Trans-Pacific Mobilities
The Chinese and Canada
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Trans-Pacific Mobilities
The Chinese and Canada
Table of Contents
Introduction: Trans-Pacific Mobilites: The Chinese and Canada / Lloyd L. Wong
Part 1: Historical Mobilities
1 The Cantonese Pacific: Migration Networks Across Space and Time / Henry Yu and Stephanie Chan
2 Transnational Mobilities in Canadian Chinatowns / David Chuenyan Lai
Part 2: Cultural and Symbolic Mobilities
3 Heeding the Phoenix Pen: Trans-Pacific Scriptures from Lü Dongbin / Paul Crowe
4 Mandarin Profile: Chinese-Language Television and Geo-Ethnic Storytelling / Shuyu Kong
5 Media Representations of Investment and Labour in Alberta’s Resource Economy / Marcella Sisqueira Cassiano, Sara Dorow, and Heather Schmidt
Part 3: Highly Skilled Mobilities
6 New Immigrants from China to Canada, 1980-2009: Migration Patterns and Economic Performance / Eva Xiaoling Li and Peter S. Li
7 Economic Mobilities of Highly Skilled China-Born Migrants in Canada and the United States / Lucia Lo, Shaolu Yu, and Wei Li
8 Chinese Techno-Immigrants in Western Canada / Karl Froschauer and Lloyd L. Wong
9 Canadian Immigration Policy and Chinese Students: Transitioning to Permanent Residency / Yixi Lu and Li Zong
Part 4: Family and Gendered Mobilities
10 Locational Dispersion of Family Members: Chinese in Toronto / Eric Fong and Jenny Li
11 Gendered Practices of Middle-Class Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals / Guida Man and Elena Chou
12 Bringing Transnationalism Home: Mobility and Locality in China-Canada Adoption / Sara Dorow
Part 5: Transnational Mobilities
13 Exploring Transnational Identities of Chinese Immigrant Children in Canada / Yan Zhang and Yan Guo
14 Double Diaspora: Chinese Canadians in Beijing / S
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