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Wind Over Water

By Haines, David W.

Wind Over Water

By Haines, David W.

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
286
Release Date:
2012-10-15
Publication Date:
2012-10-01
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0857457403
ISBN13:
9780857457400
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
568 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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