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Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to retire overseas. Illuminating the ways in which an Asian-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns, the contributors provide important new theoretical insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and innovative methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal complexity of human migration.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction David Haines, Shinji Yamashita, and J. S. Eades Part I: Migrants, States, and Cities Chapter 1. Human Trade in Colonial Vietnam
Nicolas Lainez Chapter 2. Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and Institutions
Xiang Biao
Chapter 3. Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of China
Zhang Jijiao Chapter 4. Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore's Changing Demography, Identity, and Landscape
Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam Chapter 5. A Transnational Community and Its Impact on Local Power Relations in Urban China: The Case of Wangjing "Koreatown" in the Early 2000s
Kwang-Kyoon Yeo Chapter 6. Immigration, Policies, and Civil Society in Hamamatsu, Central Japan
Keiko Yamanaka Part II: Family, Gender, Lifestyle, and Culture Chapter 7. Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodological Implications
Hy V. Luong
Chapter 8. Cross-Border Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Chinese Men: The Integration of Otherness and the Impact of Popular Representations
Caroline Grillot Chapter 9. Achieving and Restoring Masculinity through Homeland Return Visits
Hung Cam Thai Chapter 10. Mothers on the Move: Transnational Child-Rearing by Japanese Women Married to Pakistani Migrants
Masako Kudo Chapter 11. Here, There, and In-between: Lifestyle Migrants from Japan
Shinji Yamashita Chapter 12. Moving and Touring in Time and Place: Korean National History Tourism to Northeast China
Okpyo Moon Part III: Work, Ethnicity, and Nationality Chapter 13. In the Shadows and at the Margins: Working in the Korean Clubs and Bars of Osaka's Minami Area
Haeng-ja Sachiko Chung Chapter 14. African Traders in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Gordon Mathews Chapter 15. Negotiating "Home" and "Away": Singaporean Professional Migrants in China
Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie Willis Chapter 16. "Guarded Globalization": The Politics of Skill Recognition on Migrant Health Care Workers
Mika Toyota Conclusion Keiko Yamanaka, David W. Haines, J. S. Eades, Nelson Graburn, Jianxin Wang, and Bernard Wong About the Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
David W. Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010), has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and is a former president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) and currently Co-President Elect of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.
Keiko Yamanaka is Continuing Lecturer in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work appears in a range of books and journals, including Pacific Affairs; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Diaspora; Asian and Pacific Migration Journal; and Publications of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).
Shinji Yamashita is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo and former president of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, the world’s second largest national anthropology association. He is the author of Bali and Beyond: Explorations in the Anthropology of Tourism (2003).
Summary
This volume illuminates the ways in which an Asia-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns, new theoretical insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and new methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal complexity of human migration.
