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In recent centuries, there has been an incremental movement of people out of Greater China to overseas countries. This migration has led to the development of multi-generational Chinese communities all over the world. Currently, 35 million Chinese people are estimated to be living in other countries (Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States 2012). North America, Western Europe and Australasia appear to be the most popular receiving countries, but there are also movements to less obvious places, such as Eastern Europe, Siberia, Central Asia and Africa (Jacobs 2004). Due to the widespread dispersal of Chinese migrants, a global network of Chinese communities has now resulted (Ma 2003).
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Lau-Clayton, C. (2014). Introduction. In: British Chinese Families. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026613_1
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