Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range ofdatabases, this is an examination of the migration career ofwealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada,Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and1990s.
* An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of researchin Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparativevisits and consultations in Sydney, Beijing, and Singapore
* Traces the histories of the migrants families over a 25 yearperiod
* Offers a critical view of the spatial presuppositions ofneo-liberal globalization, and an insertion of geography intotransnational theory