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Destination China

Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era

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Editors:
  1. Angela Lehmann

    1. University of Xiamen, Xiamen, China

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  2. Pauline Leonard

    1. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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  • Explores in-depth a topic that has to-date been largely absent from the many books about China and its rise

  • Allows the reader to question commonly-held assumptions about China and migration

  • Brings together cutting-edge, contemporary social research conducted in China by researchers from around the world

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. International Migrants in China: Civility, Contradiction, and Confusion

    • Pauline Leonard, Angela Lehmann
    Pages 1-17

  3. Getting In and Getting On: Negotiating Bureaucracy and Immigration Restrictions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Marriage Immigration and Illegality in China’s Ethnic Borders

      • Elena Barabantseva
      Pages 21-44

    3. Residence Registration in China’s Immigration Control: Africans in Guangzhou

      • Heidi Østbø Haugen
      Pages 45-64

  4. New Country, New Beginning? Constructing New Identities and Social Positions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Educational Desire and Transnationality of South Korean Middle Class Parents in Beijing

      • Xiao Ma
      Pages 67-90

    3. From Expatriates to New Cosmopolitans? Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong

      • Maggy Lee, Thomas Wong
      Pages 91-119

  5. A Land of Opportunity? Working as a Foreigner in Post-reform China

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Japanese Labour Migration to China and IT Service Outsourcing: The Case of Dalian

      • Kumiko Kawashima
      Pages 123-145

    3. ‘Devils’ or ‘Superstars’? Making English Language Teachers in China

      • Pauline Leonard
      Pages 147-172

  6. Making Urban Spaces: Entrepreneurialism, Multiculturalism, and Cosmopolitanism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Culinary Globalization from Above and Below: Culinary Migrants in Urban Place Making in Shanghai

      • James Farrer
      Pages 175-199

    3. Creating and Managing an International Community: Immigration, Integration, and Governance in a Mainland Chinese City

      • Angela Lehmann
      Pages 201-228

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 229-238
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About this book

This book is a compelling account of China’s response to the increasing numbers of ‘foreigners’ in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, China’s position within the global migration order has been undergoing a remarkable shift. From being a nation most notable for the numbers of its emigrants, China has increasingly become a destination for immigrants from all points of the globe. What attracts international migrants to China and how are they received once they arrive? This timely volume explores this question in depth. Focusing on such diverse migrant communities as African traders in Guangzhou, Japanese call center workers in Dalian, migrant restaurateurs in Shanghai, marriage migrants on the Vietnamese borderlands, South Korean parents in Beijing, Europeans in Xiamen and Western professionals in Hong Kong, as well as the booming expansion of British and North American English language teachers across the nation, the accounts offered here reveal in intimate detail the motivations, experiences, and aspirations of the diversity of international  migrants in China. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Xiamen, Xiamen, China

    Angela Lehmann

  • University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Pauline Leonard

About the editors

Angela Lehmann is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Xiamen, China. Her research focuses on migration into China and urban change. Her ethnographic study into expatriates living in China was published as Transnational Lives in China: Expatriates in a Globalizing City by  in 2014.




Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She has published extensively on privileged migration, including Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness (2010) and Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (2014). 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Destination China

  • Book Subtitle: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era

  • Editors: Angela Lehmann, Pauline Leonard

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54433-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55710-0Published: 26 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54433-9Published: 25 June 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 238

  • Topics: Asian Politics, Migration

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