Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel: Choices, Stresses and Coping

Chapter 1

Introduction - Cost-and-Benefit Analysis: Decision-Making in Migration

1.1 Globalization, Public Policy and Assimilation of Return Migration

1.2 Public Policy Implications of International Migration for Global Governance

1.3 Migrant Transnationalism and Family-based Migration

1.4 Globalized Economic Space, Transnationalism and Translocality

1.5 Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

1.6 On a National Level and Public Policy

1.7 Migrant's Coping Strategies as Responses to Policies

1.8 Ritual Process, Community Development and De-alienation in Chinese Diasporic Communities

1.9 Chinese Ritual Performance as De-alienation

1.10 Ethnic Chinese Community Development as De-alienation

1.12 Analytic Procedure and Aims of Study

Chapter 2

The Hong Kong Study

2.1 Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Hong Kong

2.2 Vignettes of Four Returnees

2.3 Factors Associated with Return Migration

2.4 Plight and Blight of the Mobile Migrants: Hidden Injuries of Global Mobility

2.5 Adjustment to Local Environment

2.6 Migrant Coping Strategies as Responses to Immigration Policies: Migrant's Cost-and-Benefit Analysis

2.7 Suggestions to Other Returnees: Looking Beyond the Horizons of Costs and Benefits

2.9 Some Reflections

Chapter 3

The Singapore Study

3.1 Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Singapore

3.2 Evolution of Government Policies and Programs: Cost-and-Benefit Calculation in Historical Perspective

3.3 Government Programs and Initiatives