Chinese Diaspora Politics in Australia: Transnational Repression and Social Governance [Hardcover]

1. Introduction: Chinese Transnationalism in the Xi Era

2. The Homeland: The Chinese Nation-State

3. The Hostland: Australian Nationhood

4. Diaspora: Chinese Migrants in a Transnational Social Field

5. The Politics of Diaspora: Transnational Social Governance and the Participatory Behaviour of Xinqiao

6. Australias Reactive Politics

7. Conclusion: Scrutinising Non-State Transnational Repression from China to Australia

Integrating theory on diaspora politics and the growing academic area of non-state transnational repression, Young charts the historical and political evolution of the Chinese diaspora and examines Australias approach to national security policies.?

Abigail Young, PhD, is an adjunct research fellow at the University of Western Australia. A scholar of diaspora politics, international migration, and transnational repression, her research interests include national and global security, foreign interference, and responsible internationalisation.

Integrating theory on diaspora politics and the growing academic area of non-state transnational repression, Young charts the historical and political evolution of the Chinese diaspora and examines Australias approach to national security policies.

In recent decades, Chinese migration has increased exponentially in Australia. For a society that has largely accepted racial homogeneity as a precursor to nationhood, contemporary Chinese migrants must find unique transnational spaces where they can belong in the hostland while maintaining important connections to the homeland. Young identifies the emergence of transnational social governance, a form of control that is perpetrated by the contemporary patriotic Chinese migrant (the xinqiao) against other Chinese migrants ilÓ*