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Accounting for Transnational Lives

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This chapter explains the aims and rationale of this multi-sited study in four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, and Singapore. This is to find out if, how, and why living in one of these cities differently impinged on the transnational lives of 109 Chinese Singaporean migrants, who lived and were researched in one of the four cities. The chapter explains how this work contributes to fill gaps in the scholarship of transnational migrants—including the under-studied population of repeat migrants—global cities, and processes of transnationalization. Next, this chapter puts forth this book’s new analytical framework, which serves to account for transnational lives in more encompassing ways than it is usually done in the scholarship on migrant transnationalism. This is by distinguishing between different forms of (dis)embeddedness of migrants in four transnational contexts, in intersections of these contexts, and by emphasizing different types of transnational socialities of migrants. Furthermore, this introduction provides an overview of the chapters of this book.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Two participants researched in London lived in other places in the United Kingdom and were interviewed when they visited London . They are included in this study because their experiences provide knowledge on British society. One more participant who lived in London was researched when she visited Singapore because there had been no time for an interview in London . One participant researched in Singapore lived both in Singapore and in Continental Europe .

  2. 2.

    I gained this knowledge in a pilot study (Plüss 2009) that I conducted for this large-scale, and multi-sited research . The participants in the pilot study and in this book are different persons.

  3. 3.

    The military context of male Singaporeans, who are required to serve this mandatory service in Singapore (see Chapter 2), is not included as a transnational context in this study: this service only pertains to Singapore . When male participants found that their military experiences were relevant for their transnational lives , these experiences are explained as they pertained others of the men’s transnational contexts , which are mostly those of education and/or work .

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    Repeat migrants are also called ‘serial migrants ’ (Ossman 2013) or ‘multiple migrants ’ (Takenaka 2015), and include ‘circular migrants ’ (Onwumechili et al. 2003) and migrants who are called ‘global nomads’ (D’Andrea 2007). ‘Circular migrants ’ (Onwumechili et al. 2003) are migrants who return several times to live in one society, after having lived elsewhere, and ‘global nomads’ (D’Andrea 2007) are people who temporarily reside in several societies.

  5. 5.

    In the scholarship of migration , migrants who temporarily live in another society are commonly referred to as ‘sojourners’ (Ley and Kobayashi 2005) or ‘transmigrants’ (Yeoh and Willis 2005). The term ‘immigrants’ (Zhou 2014) is used to refer to migrants who have moved to settle in another society for good.

  6. 6.

    This number (Department of Statistics Singapore 2009) is based on the entry and exit records of Singaporeans . Included in the count are Singaporeans who lived abroad for a cumulative period of at least six months during the year preceding the count.

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    The term embeddedness is linked to that of integration (Remennick 2003; Anger and Strang 2008), but I find embeddedness more appropriate for this study. Integration usually refers to immigrants in a new society (Remennick 2003; Anger and Strang 2008) and indicates that the immigrants have achieved a desired fit with the characteristics of this society, and therefore are given access to its resources. The 109 Chinese -Singaporeans researched in this book were not immigrants, who are migrants who move to another society and plan to stay for good, and possibly to take on citizenship . The participants in this study mostly crossed national boundaries to live elsewhere for shorter time periods (usually for several years). The term ‘embeddedness ’ is not linked to an intention to stay in a place and/or society for good.

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