As China (People’s Republic of China, PRC) has developed into a global power, it has increasingly become a nation of people on the move. In the 1990s, societies across the world experienced a mass inflow of Chinese migrants. This chapter explores global and transnational trends in migration by focusing on the new mainland Chinese (MC) community, which differs from the ‘old’ Chinese communities of individuals who immigrated to Malaya/Malaysia in the 19th and early-twentieth centuries. By specifically focusing on the MC migrant community that is currently settled in Kuala Lumpur (KL) and its surrounding areas—the majority of whom are neither Malaysian PR holders nor Malaysian citizens—this study aims to show how this latest wave of migration is intimately related to transnational migration trends, the relationship between ethnicity and nationalism, and the tight embrace of language and identity across multilingual spaces.