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.
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).
Keiko Yamanaka is a 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 Paci c Affairs; Ethnic and Racial Studies;
Diaspora; Asian and Paci c 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).
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