The Geo-Social and Global Geographies of Power: Urban Aspirations of ‘Worlding’ African Students in China

10.1080/14650045.2016.1149697Geopolitics1-1

Transnational identities, multiculturalism or assimilation? China’s ‘refugee-returnees’ and generational transitions

Modern Asian Studie

Caught between two worlds: Mainland Chinese return migration, hukou considerations and the citizenship dilemma

Citizenship Studies156-7643-65

“Middling” Chinese returnees or immigrants from Canada? The ambiguity of return migration and claims to modernity

10.1080/10357823.2013.853167Asian Studies Review38136-5

Negotiating belonging and perceptions of citizenship in a transnational world: Singapore, a cosmopolis?

Abstract: The complex mappings of inflows and outflows of people, capital, images and ideas in global city spaces create particular challenges for nation-states that are deeply embedded in the international circuit of capital. Through an empirical study of Singapore, an aspiring global city-state, I offer an analysis of how the statesponsored cosmopolitan project is contested by Singapore citizens. I also present evidence to highlight the contradictions of belonging and citizenship in a transnational world, with particular reference to the postcolonial racial and nationality dynamics that inflect these discourses

Sovereign Power, Biopower, and the Reach of the West in an Age of Diaspora‐Centred Development

Why at this particular historical moment has there emerged a rousing interest in the potential contribution of diasporas to the development of migrant sending states and why is this diaspora turn so pervasive throughout the global South? The central premise of this paper is that the rapid ascent of diaspora‐centred development cannot be understood apart from historical developments in the West's approach to governing international spaces. Once predicated upon sovereign power, rule over distant others is increasingly coming to depend upon biopolitical projects which conspire to discipline and normalize the conduct of others at a distance so as to create self‐reliant and resilient market actors. We argue that an age of diaspora‐centred development has emerged as a consequence of this shift and is partly constitutive of it. We develop our argument with reference to Giorgio Agamben's “Homo Sacer” project and in particular the theological genealogy of Western political constructs he presents in his book The Kingdom and the Glory (2011). We provide for illustration profiles of three projects which have played a significant role in birthing and conditioning the current diaspora option: the World Bank's Knowledge for Development Programme (K4D); the US‐based International Diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA); and the EU/UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative Migration4Development project (JMDI‐M4D). Drawing upon economic theology, we make a case for construing these projects as elements of the West's emerging Oikonomia after the age of empire

Special issue introduction: New research directions and critical perspectives on diaspora strategies

10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.12.006Geoforum59153-15

Recasting diaspora strategies through feminist care ethics

Geoforum59206-21

Constituting Citizenship Through the Emotions: Singaporean Transmigrants in London

10.1080/00045600903102857Annals of the Association of American Geographers994788-80

Social Geography II: Space and sociality

10.1177/030913252211036014651252-126