Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters

摘要

Here are some myths about transnational migration: It is transgressive or transformative; it is progressive and empowering; it leads to upward class mobility; it is masculine; it is anti-essentialist and subverts nationalism; it leads to cosmopolitan openness while transcending national and cultural boundaries. In Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters Youna Kim deftly busts all of these myths as she carefully examines the recent growing but greatly underexam-ined cultural trend of transnational migration of young, single, highly educated, and career-oriented Asian women to the so-called "cosmopolitan" cities in the West.