Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Publication date: 15 April 2022
Author: Sylvia Ang
ISBN: 9789463722469
Nearly eleven million Chinese migrants live outside of China. While many of these faces of China’s globalization headed for the popular Western destinations of the United States, Australia and Canada, others have been lured by the booming Asian economies. Compared with pre-1949 Chinese migrants, most are wealthier, motivated by a variety of concerns beyond economic survival and loyal to the communist regime. The reception of new Chinese migrants, however, has been less than warm in some places. In Singapore, tensions between Singaporean-Chinese and new Chinese arrivals present a puzzle: why are there tensions between ethnic Chinese settlers and new Chinese arrivals despite similarities in phenotype, ancestry and customs? Drawing on rich empirical data from ethnography and digital ethnography, Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants investigates this puzzle and details how ethnic Chinese subjects negotiate their identities in an age of contemporary Chinese migration and China’s ascent.
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722469/contesting-chineseness
Author information: CSAA member, Sylvia Ang, is Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University. She was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore from 2018 to 2020. Her research draws on her engagement with the superdiverse cities she has lived in (Singapore and Melbourne, Australia) to analyse migration and ethnic relations, class, gender and racism.
Recent work:
Ang, S. (2022). Stuck between the Global North and South: Middling migrants in Australia and Singapore. Journal of Sociology.
Ang, S., Ho, E.L.E., & Yeoh, B.S.A. (2022). Migration and new racism beyond colour and the “West”: co-ethnicity, intersectionality and postcoloniality. Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Ang, S. & V. Colic-Peisker. (2021). Sinophobia in the Asian century: race, nation and Othering in Australia and Singapore. Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Ang, S. (2021). The myth of migrant transience: racializing new Chinese migrants in mobile Singapore. Mobilities.
