Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration, and Re-Migration Across Chinas Borders Ho Elaine Lynn-Ee

More than 35 million Chinese people live outside China, but this population is far from homogenous, and its multifaceted national affiliations require careful theorization. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in China, Canada, Singapore, and the China-Myanmar border from 2008 to 2015, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho takes the geographical space of China as the starting point from which to consider complex patterns of migration that shape nation-building and citizenship, both in origin and destination countries. This book unravels the multiple, shifting paths of global migration in Chinese society today, challenging a unilinear view of migration by presenting emigration, immigration, and re-migration trajectories that are occurring continually and simultaneously.

She uniquely brings together various migration experiences and national contexts under the same analytical