Chinese American Transnational Migration And Connections: Article Analysis

In the scholarly Article Chinese American Transnational Migration and Connections, it explains how the rise of globalization has altered transnational Chinese/Chinese-American migration and change the family structure of these people. Transnational in immigration is defined as how immigrants forge/sustain social relations that link the societies of their origin and settlement. According to the article due the rise of globalization, transnational capital/investment and relations have led into the emergence and sustainment of Chinese American communities. Because of these transnational connections and change in immigration policies over the past 20 years, it has led to many affluent and professional Chinese immigrants that run businesses across
in a house purchased by their parents in a usually affluent neighborhood under guardianship of a family member while both parents live in the Asia. The article also states how besides Chinese sending remittances back to their country in order to help their family, there is also a “reserve remittance” that is coming from China to the U.S. that is helping the U. S’s economy. Much of these “reserve remittances” are coming from the increase of foreign Chinese students in the U.S. who are receiving money from their wealthy families living in China. Once the Chinese finish their education, many of them return back to China because of the countries lucrative offers and the U.S.’s harsh immigration policies and economic downturn. The return of Chinese back to china after receiving education in the West are labeled as “sea turtles” and also “seaweeds” for those who have had difficulty obtaining high paying jobs. This transmigration has also led to the creation of a term named “seagulls” that describes Chinese professionals who hold positions (employment and business) in both the U.S and China. The return of Chinese who go back to live to China has also led to an increase to gated housing community’s due most likely to many of them growing accustomed to it in
The scholarly article showed that by the Chinese and Chinese-Americans having transnational connections in some sort of way with their origin across the pacific, they will influence each other and their perspective countries that they reside in, China and the U.S. The Chinese and Chinese-Americans influence economically China and the U.S. through investments, remittances, amongst other things. I’m in agreement with the article that this has occurred because of transnational connections. While reading the article I was surprised that the Chinese send a large amount of remittances to the U.S., mostly because of their sons/daughters studying in the U.S. This surprised me a bit because it’s usually the U.S. that sends the larger amount of remittances to other countries; in this case both countries send each other a large amount and help each other economically. The article also talks about how the transmigration have altered family structures by having an increase of “astronaut families” and “parachute kids”. I found this topic interesting and I believe the increase of a globalized economy is another reason for these types of families. Transnational connections have also altered the work force by the emergence of “Seagulls” and “Sea weed” as mentioned in the article. This in my opinion is interesting because it shows that China in a