China as a 'new frontier': Neo-liberal aspirations, imaginaries and (dis-) enchantments of Swiss migrant professionals in mainland China. Issue 1 (1st March 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- China as a 'new frontier': Neo-liberal aspirations, imaginaries and (dis-) enchantments of Swiss migrant professionals in mainland China. Issue 1 (1st March 2019)
- Main Title:
- China as a 'new frontier': Neo-liberal aspirations, imaginaries and (dis-) enchantments of Swiss migrant professionals in mainland China
- Authors:
- Camenisch, Aldina
- Abstract:
- Mainland China has emerged as a migration destination for foreign professionals in the post-Mao era. This ethnographic article investigates the aspirations of one group among them – self-initiated Swiss migrant professionals – and the imaginative geographies of China that they develop and renegotiate throughout their journeys. The analysis reveals their aspirations and imaginaries signifying a quest to push limits for the sake of neo-liberal self-development. Swiss professionals encounter a China in transformation as a 'country of extremes' and approach it as a 'new frontier'. Rich in challenges and opportunities, it both enables and limits interviewees' projects for self-realization, further fuelling the strong sense of transience that permeates their migration trajectories.
- Is Part Of:
- Transitions. Volume 3:Issue 1(2019)
- Journal:
- Transitions
- Issue:
- Volume 3:Issue 1(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0003-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 31
- Page End:
- 44
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-01
- Subjects:
- Migrant labor -- Periodicals
Migrant labor -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Foreign workers -- Social conditions -- Periodicals
Immigrant students -- Periodicals
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https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal, id=252/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1386/tjtm.3.1.31_1 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2397-7140
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