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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25585
Title: Rethinking “Chinese Community” in the Context of Transnationalism: the Case of Chinese Economic Immigrants in Canada
Authors: Zhou, Yanqiu Rachel
Watt, Lisa
Coleman, William D.
Micollier, Evelyne
Gahagan, Jacqueline
Department: Health and Aging
Keywords: Transnationalism; ethnic community; economic immigrants; Canada; China
Publication Date: 15-May-2019
Publisher: Spinger - Journal of International Migration & Integration
Citation: Zhou, Y.R., Watt, L., Coleman, W.D. et al. Rethinking “Chinese Community” in the Context of Transnationalism: the Case of Chinese Economic Immigrants in Canada. Int. Migration & Integration 20, 537–555 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018-0622-9
Abstract: The current research on transnationalism has paid little attention to the impacts of immigrants’ sustained ties to their homelands on their relationships with ethnic communities in the host countries. Drawing on data from a qualitative study of economic immigrants from China to Canada, this article explores the new generation of Chinese immigrants’ definitions and perceptions of and experiences with the “Chinese community” as both an ideational and an empirical entity. Having faced various barriers to settlement and integration in Canada, these individuals tend to see China as “closer” to them than the established ethnic Chinese communities in Canada when it comes to fulfilling their needs for economic security, social support and, even, a sense of belonging. The findings suggest the urgent need to understand the relationship between the new waves of immigration, the ethnic community, and transnationalism, and to reflect on the mosaic multicultural approach to ethnicity and immigrant governance in the context of diversification of diversity.
Description: This is the post-print of a published article in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25585
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018-0622-9
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