| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ch 1. A short history of two hundred years of Hong Kong migration and identity -- ch 2. Sojourner adjustment and adaptation to new cultures : art, literature, and the social science perspective on identity -- ch 3. Returning home : cultural transitions and the identity model -- ch 4. Results from the Hong Kong remigration project : departing, adjusting, returning -- ch 5. Additive identity -- ch 6. Subtractive identity -- ch 7. Global and affirmative identities -- ch 8. Remigrants and family life -- ch 9. Remigrants and professional life -- ch 10. Confucius and Socrates : ancient philosophies, migration, and cultural identity -- ch 11. The new Hong Kong boomerang. |
| Summary |
Features interviews covering the anxieties, anticipations, hardships, and flexible world perspectives of migrants and their families, as well as friends and co-workers, of migration and remigration. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Return migration -- China -- Hong Kong.
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Return migration. |
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China -- Hong Kong. |
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Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
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Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Decolonization -- China -- Hong Kong.
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Decolonization. |
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Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration.
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Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997.
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Hong Kong (China) -- Ethnic relations.
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Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sussman, Nan M. (Nan Michelle). Return migration and identity. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011 9789888028832 (DLC) 2011467442 (OCoLC)680435122 |
| ISBN |
9789888053568 (electronic book) |
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9888053566 (electronic book) |
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9789888028849 |
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9789888028832 |
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9888028839 |
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9888028847 |
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