Millionaire migrants: Trans-Pacific life lines

摘要

This book is primarily a study of wealthy migrants who left East Asia (particularly Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea) and relocated in Canada, especially Vancouver, British Columbia. Based on extensive interviews, historical and statistical analysis, and fieldwork in such places as Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, Ley engages in scholarship on transnational migration, Canadian Studies, and neoliberalism. Regarding transnationalism and migration, Ley's study of wealthy migrants from East Asia in Canada demonstrates three major points: (1) the transnational social field stretching from East Asia to Canada is not a uniform surface of sameness but acutely differentiated; (2) time-space compression has not exhausted the role of distance, even for millionaire migrants; and (3) place matters, as these migrants embody the cultural traits of their regions of origin in moving across the social field.