Wind Over Water : : Migration in an East Asian Context / / ed. by David W. Haines, Keiko Yamanaka, Shinji Yamashita.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Biao, Xiang,; Chung, Haeng-ja Sachiko,; Eades, J.S.,; Graburn, Nelson,; Grillot, Caroline,; Haines, David W.,; Jianxin, Wang,; Jijiao, Zhang,; Kudo, Masako,; Lainez, Nicolas,; Lam, Theodora,; Luong, Hy V.,; Mathews, Gordon,; Moon, Okpyo,; Thai, Hung Cam,; Toyota, Mika,; Willis, Katie,; Wong, Bernard P.,; Yamanaka, Keiko,; Yamashita, Shinji,; Yeo, Kwang-Kyoon,; Yeoh, Brenda S.A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Haines, David W.,; Yamanaka, Keiko,; Yamashita, Shinji,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Ano de Publicação: 2012
• Idioma: English
• coleção: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 2
• Descrição Física: 1 online resource (284 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Migrants, States, and Cities -- Chapter 1 Human Trade in Colonial Vietnam -- Chapter 2 Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and Institutions -- Chapter 3 Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of China -- Chapter 4 Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore’s Changing Demography, Identity, and Landscape -- Chapter 5 A Transnational Community and Its Impact on Local Power Relations in Urban China: The Case of Beijing’s “Koreatown” in the Early 2000s -- Chapter 6 Immigration, Policies, and Civil Society in Hamamatsu, Central Japan -- Part II: Family, Gender, Lifestyle, and Culture -- Chapter 7 Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodological Implications -- Chapter 8 Cross-Border Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Chinese Men: The Integration of Otherness and the Impact of Popular Representations -- Chapter 9 Achieving and Restoring Masculinity through Homeland Return Visits -- Chapter 10 Mothers on the Move: Transnational Child-Rearing by Japanese Women Married to Pakistani Migrants -- Chapter 11 Here, There, and In-between: Lifestyle Migrants from Japan -- Chapter 12 Moving and Touring in Time and Place: Korean National History Tourism to Northeast China -- 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 -- Chapter 14 African Traders in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong -- Chapter 15 Negotiating “Home” and “Away”: Singaporean Professional Migrants in China -- Chapter 16 “Guarded Globalization”: The Politics of Skill Recognition on Migrant Health Care Workers -- Conclusion -- About the Contributors -- Index