Transnational Student Return Migration and Megacities in China

Transnational Student Return Migration and Megacities in China

by Zhe Wang
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/05/2023

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This book is a study of the return migration of overseas Chinese students. By 2018, over 3.5 million Chinese students had returned from overseas universities to China, with the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen representing by far their main destinations. In other words, when overseas students return to China, many do not return to their hometown but usually land, work and settle down in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Their return migration is thus not only transnational, but also internal-urban. This book adopts a multi-level geographical analysis to explore this important phenomenon, exploring why and how returnees choose these three cities and how they experience and interpret their everyday lives in these megacities after their return. In doing so, it highlights the importance of cultural logics and multiscalar thinking of transnational Chinese students’ return migration and illuminates how their transnational migration reproduces domestic socio-spatial inequalities. This book brings an important contribution to the fields of Cultural Geography, Urban Geography, Transnationalism, Migration Studies and Citizenship Studies.

ISBN:
9789819920839
9789819920839
Category:
Human geography
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-05-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Nature Singapore

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