Transnational Trajectories in East Asia

<p>In recent decades East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade investment migration and popular culture at regional and global levels. At the same time the region has seen renewed national assertiveness and nationalist impulses. The book interrogates these seemingly contradictory developments as they bear on the transformations of the nation and citizenship in East Asia. Conventionally studies on East Asia juxtapose these developments focusing on the much-exercised dichotomy of the national and transnational. In contrast this book suggests a different orientation. First it moves beyond the simplistic view that demarcates the transnational as the West. Second it does not view the national and transnational as distinct or contradictory spheres of influence and analysis but rather focuses on the interactions between the two with a view on how these interactions work to transform the ideals and practices of the good nation good society and good citizen. The chapters cover a broad range of empirical research--education science immigration multicultural policy human rights gender and youth orientations art and food flows politics of values and regional identity--which highlight the ways in which the nation is reconfigured and the relationship between the citizen and (national) collective is redefined in relation to transnational dynamics and frameworks.</p> <p></p><i> <p>Transnational Trajectories in East Asia</i> provides a new perspective on and original analysis of transnational processes bringing a fresh understanding to developments of the nation and citizenship in the region. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of transnationalization and globalization; comparative citizenship migration and multiculturalism; and Asian politics society and regionalism.</p>