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Singapore serves as a major destination for Chinese migrants and is a hub for Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia. This chapter uses a socio-cultural approach to analyze the transnational social embeddedness of new Chinese entrepreneurship in Singapore. Based upon empirical research, the authors argue that new immigrant entrepreneurs are simultaneously embedded into two or more nation-states and geopolitical spheres. Chinese capitalism is characterized by intensive transnational connections with the homeland and deepening integration with the host country. Individual integration into Singapore and transnational ties with China are not necessarily exclusive.
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Some of the material in this chapter has appeared in Ren Na and Liu Hong, “Traversing between Local and Transnational: Dual Embeddedness of New Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Singapore,” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 24, no. 3 (September 2015), pp. 298–326, which duly acknowledges the funding support from the Thailand Research Fund.]
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Hong, L., Na, R. (2017). Transnational Social Underpinnings of New Chinese Capitalism: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore. In: Santasombat, Y. (eds) Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4696-4_3
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