Hong Kong Movers and Stayers: Narratives of Family Migration

by Janet W. Salaff, Siu-lun Wong, Arent Greve

Book Overview

Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong's reversion to China in 1997. Nearly half of those returned within the next several years. Filled with detailed, first-hand stories of nine Hong Kong families over nearly two decades, Hong Kong Movers and Stayers is a multifaceted yet intimate look at the forces behind Hong Kong families' successful, and failed, efforts at migration and settlement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077040
• ISBN13: 9780252077043
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"