Destination China Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era
This book is a compelling account of China’s response to the increasing numbers of ‘foreigners’ in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, China’s position withi
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EDITED BY ANGELA LEHMANN & PAULINE LEONARD
Destination China
Angela Lehmann • Pauline Leonard Editors
Destination China Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era
Editors Angela Lehmann University of Xiamen Xiamen, China
Pauline Leonard University of Southampton Southampton, UK
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Foreword
It is an utter pleasure to write this Foreword. As Angela and Pauline have told me, this book is my fault. Pauline Leonard has been my colleague at the University of Southampton for nearly 20 years. I have always been so impressed with her work on migration, especially the book on expatriates in Hong Kong and the excellent new book on the British in South Africa (with Daniel Conway). Although I was already familiar with Angela’s wonderful book on expatriates in China, I only really got to know Angela on my first trip to Xiamen University in 2014. During this trip, it was decided that Southampton University and Xiamen University should forge closer collaborations, and that research on ‘migration’ was an obvious opportunity for collaboration. I was delighted to be paired with Angela to develop this collaboration, with the assumption that we would work closely together on a collaborative project. I was very excited by all of this and I was very much looking forward to
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