State/Nation/Transnation - 9780415302791

Taylor & Francis

Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia. > This edited volume examines the relationship between the nation and the transnation, focusing on transnational communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia. > \n1. Introduction: Transnationalism as a Challenge to the Nation 2. The Myth of the Controllability of Difference: Labour Migration, Transnational Communities and State Strategies in the Asia-Pacific Region 3. Speres of Speculation and Middling Transnational Migrants: Chinese-Indonesians in the Asia-Pacific 4. Citizenship and Differential Exclusion ofh