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- Title
Vancouver's newest Chinese diaspora: settlers or ‘immigrant prisoners’?
- Authors
Sin Yih Teo
- Abstract
This study seeks to reground concepts of ‘diaspora’ and ‘transnationalism’ in the realities of everyday life through examining the lived experiences of immigrants. Based on in-depth household interviews and focus groups, it examines the newest Chinese diaspora in Vancouver—skilled immigrants from the People's Republic of China. It explores the challenges that they face in an unfamiliar city, including employment and language barriers as well as domestic anxieties surrounding childcare, education and marital difficulties. The strategies that they adopt to counter these problems are at times transnational—in the form of astronaut families or transnational childcare—but almost always familial. Ultimately, the settlement challenges that they face, coupled with the available transnational possibilities, raise the question of whether they are settlers or ‘immigrant prisoners’, temporarily serving their time in Vancouver before a further relocation.
- Subjects
HUMAN geography; CHINESE diaspora; TRANSNATIONALISM; EMIGRATION &; immigration; IMMIGRANTS; CHILD care; CITIES &; towns; LANGUAGE &; languages; EDUCATION
- Publication
GeoJournal, 2007, Vol 68, Issue 2/3, p211
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10708-007-9071-2