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  • Segregation

    de Eric Fong, Kumiko Shibuya, Brent Berry ...
    Segregation is one of the starkest social realities of contemporary societies. Though often associated with explicitly racist laws of the past, it is a phenomenon that persists to this day and is a crucial element for understanding group relations and the wellbeing of different populations in society.In this book, Eric Fong, Kumiko Shibuya, and Brent Berry provide a thorough discussion of the ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • Immigration and the City

    de Eric Fong, Brent Berry ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a "one-size-fits-all" approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities. The communities in which immigrants live and the jobs and businesses where they earn their living have become increasingly diversified. In ... Leer más

    $19.00 USD

  • Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong

    Edición de Susanne Y.P. Choi, Eric Fong ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Since 1995 most mainland migrants to Hong Kong have been the wives or non-adult children of Hong Kong men of lower socio-economic status. The majority of immigrants are women, who throughout the past two decades have accounted for more than 60% of immigration. The profile of immigrants has been changing and they are significantly more educated than was the case in the past. Despite the improvement ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies

    Canada, Taiwan, and the United States

    Edición de Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, Nancy Denton ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other countries where doors are gradually opening to immigration, especially in Asia. This combination of a ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Chinese Ethnic Business

    Global and Local Perspectives

    Edición de Eric Fong, Chiu Luk ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, Australia and Canada. Focusing on the main themes of economic globalization and Chinese community ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • China on the Move

    Migration, the State, and the Household

    de C. Cindy Fan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to Chinese development.Using a large body of research, clear and attractive illustrations (maps, tables, ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Edición de Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • A Middle Class Without Democracy

    Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China

    de Jie Chen ...
    What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China's new middle class to democracy and democratization. Chen's work is based on a unique set of data collected from a probability-sample ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

    de Kwok-bun Chan ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different defence mechanisms Chinese migrants have created in order to escape the systemic and institutionalized ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China

    Edición de Rachel Murphy ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China. Labour migration has not only exerted a profound impact on China’s economy; it has also had far-reaching consequences for its social development. This book examines labour migration in China, focusing on the social dimensions of this phenomenon, as well as on ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China

    Edición de Deborah S. Davis, Feng Wang ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications.Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China draws ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China

    Edición de Weiping Wu, Mark W. Frazier ...
    The study of contemporary China constitutes a fascinating yet challenging area of scholarly inquiry. Recent decades have brought dramatic changes to China′s economy, society and governance. Analyzing such changes in the context of multiple disciplinary perspectives offers opportunites as well as challenges for scholars in the field known as contemporary China Studies. The SAGE Handbook of ... Leer más

    $268.99 USD