Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Shirlena Huang 2. Cosmopolitanism at Work: Labour Market Exclusion in Singapore's Financial Sector Junjia Ye and Philip F. Kelly 3. Servicing British Expatriate "Talent" in Singapore: Exploring Ordinary Transnationalism and the Role of the Expatriate Club Jonathan V. Beaverstock 4. Identity Politics and Cultural Asymmetries: Singaporean Transmigrants ‘Fashioning’ Cosmopolitanism Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho 5. Singaporean and British Transmigrants in China and the Cultural Politics of ‘Contact Zones’ Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie Willis 6. Global Nightscapes in Shanghai as Ethnosexual Contact Zones James Farrer 7. Shanghai Rush: Skilled Migrants in a Fantasy City Yen-Fen Tseng 8. Making Careers in the Occupational Niche: Chinese Students in Corporate Japan's Transnational Business Gracia Liu-Farrer 9. ‘The Moon Back Home is Brighter’?: Return Migration and the Cultural Politics of Belonging Sin YihTeo 10. A Ritual Economy of ‘Talent’: China and Overseas Chinese Professionals Xiang Biao

About the Author

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, and Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at NUS’ Asia Research Institute. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities; and gender and transnational migration in Asia.


Shirlena Huang is Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on gender and migration (particularly within the Asia-Pacific region) in the contexts of carework, transnational families and religion, as well as urbanization and heritage conservation.