Highlights migrant identification as a unique site

Highlights a new paradigm, namely cultural disidentification

Studies several migrant groups and examines several countries

Introduction: 1: Theorizing and Proving Intersectionality in Transnational Contexts: Caroline Plüss and Chan Kwok-bun.- Section One: Explaining Mobility and Inequality.- 2: A Returnee's Hybridity: Its Upside and Downside: Chan Kwok-bun.- 3: Theorizing Immigrant Family Adaptation, Maladaptation, and Poverty: New Arrivals in Hong Kong from Mainland China: Chan Kwok-bun.- 4: Class, Migration, and Identity in a Philippine Village: Philip Kelly.- Section Two: Nation States, Social Networks and Emotional Spaces: 5: Social Strain and the Adaptive Behavior of Hong Kong Return Migrants: Chan Kwok-bun and Chan Wai-wan.- 6: The Role of the State in Transnational Migrant Identity Formation: A 'Uniquely Singapore' Experience?: Selina Lim.- Section Three: Transnational Positionalities and Cultural Capital: 7: Chinese-Singaporean Repeat Migrant Women: Transnational Positionalities and Social Inequalities: Caroline Plüss.- 8: Transnational Motherhood in the Making of Global Kids: South Korean Educational Migrants in Singapore: Yoonhee Kang.- 9: Becoming New Overseas Chinese: Transnational Practices and Identity Construction among the Chinese Migrants in Japan: Gracia Liu-Farrer.- Section Four: Locating Transnational Identifications.- 10: Identifying the Periphery: Challenging Citizenship, Nationality, and Identity on the Ogasawara Islands; David Chapman.- 11: Brokers of Nostalgia: Shan Migrant Public Spheres in Chiang Mai, Thailand: Amporn Jirattikorn.- 12: Identities and Decentered Transnational Linkages: Return Migrants in Hong Kong: Lucille Lok-sun Ngan.- Conclusion: 13: Living in the Intersections of Cultures, Societies, Emotions, Politics and Economies: Deterritorializing Culture: Caroline Plüss.