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State/Nation/Transnation

State/Nation/Transnation challenges the assumption that transnational movements herald the death of the nation-state per se, arguing rather that they involve a reconfiguration.

This book takes as its main theme the interconnections between conceptions of the state, the nation and the transnation as they are played out in the Asia-Pacific arena one of the globes most prominent regions in terms of human mobility and migrations. Grounded in in-depth research, each chapter explores the productive possibilities of the tensions between the nation-state and the transnation. It concludes that while there is potential for transnational forms of activity to challenge the existing power structures of the nation-state, it is also clear that existing axes of power and influence are often maintained, or are reinscribed in new ways.

Containing both theoretical chapters and detailed case studies, this volume will interest students and researchers of migration, the Asia-Pacific and the future of the nation-state.

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, and the principal investigator of the Asian Metacentre at the universitys Asia Research Institute.

Katie Willis is a senior lecturer in geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Transnationalism

Series editor: Steven Vertovec

University of Oxford

Transnationalism broadly refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states. Today myriad systems of relationship, exchange and mobility function intensively and in real time while being spread across the world. New technologies, especially involving telecommunications, serve to connect such networks. Despite great distances and notwithstanding the presence of international borders (and all the laws, regulations and national narratives that they represent), many forms of association have been globally intensified and now take place paradoxically in a planet-spanning yet common arena of activity. In some instances, transnational forms and processes serve to speed up or exacerbate historical patterns of activity; in others, they represent arguably new forms of human interaction. Transnational practices and their consequent configurations of power are shaping the world of the twenty-first century.

This book forms part of a series of volumes concerned with describing and analysing a range of phenomena surrounding this field. Serving to ground theory and research on globalization, the Routledge book series on Transnationalism offers the latest empirical studies and ground-breaking theoretical work on contemporary socio-economic, political and cultural processes that span international boundaries. Contributions to the series are drawn from sociology, economics, anthropology, politics, geography, international relations, business studies and cultural studies.

The series is associated with the Transnational Communities Research Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council (see http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk).

The series consists of two strands:

Transnationalism aims to address the needs of students and teachers, and these titles will be published in hardback and paperback. Titles include:

Culture and Politics in the Information Age

A New Politics?

Frank Webster (ed.)

Transnational Democracy

Political Spaces and Border Crossings

James Anderson (ed.)

Routledge Research in Transnationalism is a forum for innovative new research intended for a high-level specialist readership, and the titles will be available in hardback only (except titles marked *). Titles include:

1 New Transnational Social Spaces

International Migration and Transnational Companies in the Early 21st Century

Ludger Pries (ed.)

2 Transnational Muslim Politics *

Reimagining the Umma

Peter G Mandaville

3 New Approaches to Migration?

Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home

Nadje Al-Ali and Khalid Koser (eds)

4 Work and Migration

Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World

Ninna Nyberg Sorensen and Karen Fog Olwig (eds)

5 Communities across Borders

New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures

Paul Kennedy and Victor Roudometof

6 Transnational Spaces

Peter Jackson, Phil Crang and Claire Dwyer (eds)

7 The Media of Diaspora

Karim H. Karim (ed.)

8 Transnational Politics

Turks and Kurds in Germany

Eva stergaard-Nielsen

9 Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora

Bhikhu Parekh, Gurharpal Singh and Steven Vertovec (eds)

10 International Migration and Globalization

Rey Koslowski (ed.)

11 Gender in Transnationalism

Home, Longing and Belonging among Moroccan Migrant Women

Ruba Salih

12 State/Nation/Transnation

Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific

Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie Willis (eds)

13 Transnational Activism in Asia

Problems of Power and Democracy

Nicola Piper and Anders Uhlin (eds)

14 Diaspora, Identity and Religion

New Directions in Theory and Research

Waltraud Kokot, Khachig Tllyan and Carolin Alfonso (eds)

15 Cross-Border Governance in the European Union

Olivier Kramsch and Barbara Hooper (eds)

State/Nation/Transnation

Perspectives on Transnationalism
in the Asia-Pacific

Edited by

Brenda S.A. Yeoh
and Katie Willis

First published 2004
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

2004 Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie Willis for selection and editorial matter; individual contributors their contributions

Typeset in Baskerville by
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

State/nation/transnation : perspectives on transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Katie Willis.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. AsiaEmigration and immigration. 2. Pacific AreaEmigration and immigration. 3. Transnationalism. 4. Alien laborAsia. 5. Alien laborPacific Area. 6. AsiansForeign countries. I. Yeoh, Brenda S.

A. II. Willis, Katie, 1968

JV8490.S73 2004

304.8'5dc22

2003019867

ISBN 041530279X

dedicated to the memory of Natalie Yap

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