Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged,
facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this
interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries
around the world explore the changing relations between
nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account
illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on
short-term contracts, and highly skilled emigres, the contributors
argue that the figure of the returnee energizes and redefines
nationalism in an era of increasingly fluid and indeterminate
national sovereignty. They acknowledge the diversity, complexity,
and instability of reverse migration, while emphasizing its
discursive, policy, and political significance at a moment when the
tensions between state power and transnational subjects are
particularly visible. Taken together, the essays foreground Asia as
a useful site for rethinking the intersections of migration,
sovereignty, and nationalism.
"Contributors." Sylvia Cowan, Johan Lindquist, Melody Chia-wen
Lu, Koji Sasaki, Shin Hyunjoon, Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Mika Toyota,
Carol Upadhya, Wang Cangbai, Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
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