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Parker 's review essay begins as an account of two important
recent books dealing primarily with Chinese migration to, and
diaspora formation in, Australia and Britain, while incorporating
other analyses of Chinese diasporas in Latin America and South
Asia. In addition, Parker provides an inclusive and carefully interrogative
overview of contemporary theories of Chinese diasporic
transnationalism and of the need for measured skepticism about the
transnational turn in recent migration scholarship. He sketches the
"new Chinese migration order" that stems from the interaction of
several factors: globalization, China's opening to trade and migration,
the economics of Western higher education, new communications
technology, and the regular recalibration of immigration
policies in Europe, Australia, and North America. He analyzes the
roles played by culture and the intergenerational aspects of collective
memory in shaping the identity of Chinese diasporic social formations
and touches on issues of spatiality, temporality, and the
changing role of China in diasporic identity in the age of the Internet.
Parker concludes with an exploration of the shift from an attitude
that assumes one "possesses" an identity to a more positional and
performative view of identity, while arguing that a certain "banal
transnationalism" can miss the implications of Chinese diasporic
heterogeneity in social class, social practices, and embodied gender
and racial identities.

Anyone writing about Chinese migration in Britain does so under the shadow of death. The murder of two Chinese students in Newcastle in August 2008 was the latest in a line of misfortunes to propel Britain's Chinese population to the front pages of national newspapers. In 2000 fifty-eight Chinese people were discovered suffocated to death in the back of a van opened at Dover customs port. Four years later the drowning of twenty-three Chinese cockle pickers off the northwest English coast at Morecambe Bay further highlighted the dangers endured by vulnerable Chinese migrants.

Internationally public utilities, sometimes referred to as network industries, are being privatised and dedicated regulatory structures to protect the public interest are being introduced. This study looks at the related issues of post‐privatisation performance, regulatory risk and management strategies in privatised public utilities, drawing on evidence from the UK. The main findings are, first, that in assessing the impact of privatisation on economic performance it is difficult to separate out the effects of ownership, competition, regulation and technological change. Second, that in terms of the distribution of the efficiency gains, initially investors were the main beneficiaries in the UK, but consumers gained as competition developed and regulation tightened. Third, regulated enterprises are subject to regulatory risk as well as commercial risk with implications for types of management strategies adopted. Following privatisation the dynamics of regulation involve both the regulator and management learning about regulation and the optimal strategies to adopt. The UK's experiences are educational for those countries now contemplating or in the process of introducing privatisation programmes.