Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of
databases, this is an examination of the migration career of
wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and
1990s.
* An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research
in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative
visits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and Singapore
* Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 year
period
* Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions of
neo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography into
transnational theory
