Liangni Sally Liu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Massey University, New Zealand. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the "Asian Migration Cluster" of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2013-2014), and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Office, Auckland University of Technology. Dr. Liu’s research interest is in Chinese transnational migration. Her broader research interests also include the intersection of migratory mobility and sexuality, ethnic relations between migrants and mainstream/indigenous people, and the media influence on ethnic relations. Her research work has been published widely in the forms of book chapters and research article in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals. She has been awarded the Marsden Fund (Fast-Start) by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2016, and will conduct a project entitled "Floating families? New Chinese migrants in New Zealand and their multi-generational families".

• List of tables and figuresAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviations1. Chapter 1: Introduction: A personal journey – Approaching the topic2. Chapter 2: Chinese modernity and New Zealand’s opening up – Perspectives from both immigrant sending and receiving countries3. Chapter 3: Re-grounding “transnationalism” in theories and practices4. Chapter 4: Changing family strategies and onward movements5. Chapter 5: Conceptualisation of “home”, identity, sense of belonging and citizenship6. Chapter 6: Does the economic factor still matter? – Trans-Tasman migration of new PRC migrants7. Chapter 7: Point of return – A quantitative data analysis from a comparative perspective 8. Chapter 8: “Local” or “Global”? – Situating Chinese transnational migration in the world migration system and global modernityAppendixes Index

Liangni Sally Liu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Massey University, New Zealand. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the "Asian Migration Cluster" of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2013-2014), and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Office, Auckland University of Technology. Dr. Liu’s research interest is in Chinese transnational migration. Her broader research interests also include the intersection of migratory mobility and sexuality, ethnic relations between migrants and mainstream/indigenous people, and the media influence on ethnic relations. Her research work has been published widely in the forms of book chapters and research article in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals. She has been awarded the Marsden Fund (Fast-Start) by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2016, and will conduct a project entitled "Floating families? New Chinese migrants in New Zealand and their multi-generational families".

• List of tables and figuresAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviations1. Chapter 1: Introduction: A personal journey – Approaching the topic2. Chapter 2: Chinese modernity and New Zealand’s opening up – Perspectives from both immigrant sending and receiving countries3. Chapter 3: Re-grounding “transnationalism” in theories and practices4. Chapter 4: Changing family strategies and onward movements5. Chapter 5: Conceptualisation of “home”, identity, sense of belonging and citizenship6. Chapter 6: Does the economic factor still matter? – Trans-Tasman migration of new PRC migrants7. Chapter 7: Point of return – A quantitative data analysis from a comparative perspective 8. Chapter 8: “Local” or “Global”? – Situating Chinese transnational migration in the world migration system and global modernityAppendixes Index

Liangni Sally Liu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Massey University, New Zealand. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the "Asian Migration Cluster" of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2013-2014), and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Office, Auckland University of Technology. Dr. Liu’s research interest is in Chinese transnational migration. Her broader research interests also include the intersection of migratory mobility and sexuality, ethnic relations between migrants and mainstream/indigenous people, and the media influence on ethnic relations. Her research work has been published widely in the forms of book chapters and research article in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals. She has been awarded the Marsden Fund (Fast-Start) by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2016, and will conduct a project entitled "Floating families? New Chinese migrants in New Zealand and their multi-generational families".

• List of tables and figuresAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviations1. Chapter 1: Introduction: A personal journey – Approaching the topic2. Chapter 2: Chinese modernity and New Zealand’s opening up – Perspectives from both immigrant sending and receiving countries3. Chapter 3: Re-grounding “transnationalism” in theories and practices4. Chapter 4: Changing family strategies and onward movements5. Chapter 5: Conceptualisation of “home”, identity, sense of belonging and citizenship6. Chapter 6: Does the economic factor still matter? – Trans-Tasman migration of new PRC migrants7. Chapter 7: Point of return – A quantitative data analysis from a comparative perspective 8. Chapter 8: “Local” or “Global”? – Situating Chinese transnational migration in the world migration system and global modernityAppendixes Index