Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisMigration and borders are at the center of political debates in South Asia and around the world as more people migrate in search of safety and opportunity. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a poor Bangladeshi women who regularly crosses the India border to visit family, of Muslims from India living in Gulf countries for work, and the harrowing journey of a young Afghan man as he sets off on foot to Germany. The international and interdisciplinary work in this book contributes to this moment by analyzing how borders are experienced by migrants and borderlanders in South Asia, how mobility and diaspora are engaged in literature and media, and how the lives of migrants are transformed during their journey to new homes in South Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.Trade Review"The richness of the volume resides in the very diverse origin of its authors, from a multi-disciplinary as well as from a geographical point of view, and in the capacity of its editors to have allowed for the intellectually fruitful collaboration of committed and young scholars. The editors and the contributors are due to the appreciations of their colleagues for the well-researched work excellently done. It is a highly commendable work."- Dr Saleh Shahriar, College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Migration Letters, April 2019 "This book is both thought-provoking and a good read. It is policy-relevant as it conceptualises borders, belonging and connection to place as central to the future development of fair and equitable migration policies. Hopefully the collection informs the important debates on migration that so often seem bereft of any nuance."- Diotima Chattoraj, Singapore, Journal of Contemporary Asia, July 2018 "This exciting volume brings together a new generation of thinkers, scholars, and activists to interrogate borders, bordering, and mobility in South Asia. In doing so, it makes a major intervention in ongoing debates that resonate far beyond the region."- Jason Cons, author of Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border "An extraordinarily timely collection of essays to remind us of the crucial place of South Asia in twenty-first century displacements, and the urgent need to theorize its new border regimes through the ordinary and catastrophic experiences of moving people."- Vazira Zamindar, Associate Professor of History, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors List of figures Introduction The Global Transformation of Borders and Mobility Reece Jones and Md. Azmeary Ferdoush Section I: Experiencing Borders in South Asia Chapter 1 Spaces of Refusal: Rethinking Sovereign Power and Resistance at the Border Reece Jones Chapter 2 Border Layers: Formal and Informal Markets along the India-Bangladesh Border Edward Boyle and Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman Chapter 3 Experiencing the Border: Lushai People and Transnational Space Azizul Rasel Section II: Mobility in and Beyond South Asia Chapter 4 Of Insiders, Outsiders, and Infiltrators: The Politics of Citizenship and Inclusion in Contemporary South Asia Kavitha Rajagopalan Chapter 5 Renegotiating Boundaries: Exploring Lives of Undocumented Bangladeshi Women Workers in India Ananya Chakraborty Chapter 6 ‘The Immoral Traffic in Women’: Regulating Indian Emigration to the Persian Gulf Andrea Wright Chapter 7 The Journey to Europe: A Young Afghan’s Experience on the Migrant Route James Weir and Rohullah Amin Chapter 8 Hardening Regional Borders: Changes in Mobility from South Asia to the European Union Marta Zorko Section III: Representations of Borders and Mobility in Diaspora Chapter 9 The Borders of Integration: Paperwork between Bangladesh and Belgium Malini Sur and Masja van Meeteren Chapter 10 Disordering History and Collective Memory in Gunvantrai Acharya’s Dariyalal Riddhi Shah Chapter 11 Fragmented Lives: Locating Home in the Poems of Sudesh Mishra Tana Trivedi Conclusion Md. Azmeary Ferdoush and Reece Jones

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Book SynopsisCross-border Marriages and Mobility: Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which is of critical importance to the transformation of Hong Kong. By examining the women’s motivations for migration and lived experiences in relation to the discursive, political, economic, and social circumstances of mainland China and Hong Kong, Avital Binah-Pollak demonstrates how these marital practices are causing the expanding and blurring of borders, so that there is a much wider strip of border in which the dichotomies of the rural/urban, periphery/center, and hybrid/national identities become more complex and negotiable. While this is particularly interesting and valid in the case of the border between mainland China and Hong Kong because of the particular nature of the relationship between these two societies, it may also apply to borders between many other societies worldwide.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Hong Kong China Border: A Space of Confinement and Movement Chapter Two: Motivations for Crossing Borders Chapter Three: "Same as Before, Living as a House Wife" Chapter Four: Hong Kong's Education: A Bridge to the 'First World' Chapter Five: New voices in Hong Kong: Local identity formation Concluding Thoughts: Home is not where the heart is but where it wants to be Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Asian Migrant’s Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, this edited volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard labour and (potentially) exploitative or abusive situations. It shows that migrants are not only on the receiving end where it concerns their bodies, nor are their bodies only utilized for their work as migrants: they also seek control over their bodies and to make them part of strategies to express themselves. The collective papers in The Asian Migrant’s Body argue that the body itself is a primary site for understanding how migrants reflect on and experience their migration trajectories.Table of Contents0. Introduction: Conceptualizing the Asian Migrant's Body, by Michiel Baas & Peidong YANG 1. 'Not a lesbian in Dubai, not gay in Tehran': sexualities, migrations, and social movements across the Gulf, by Pardis Mahdavi 2. Bodies at Work: Gendered Performance and Migrant Beer Sellers in Southeast Asia, by Denise L. Spitzer, PhD 3. Body, Space and Migrant Ties: Migrant Domestic workers and Embodied resistances in Lebanon, by Amrita Pande 4. The Day Off Policy. 'Reverse Domestication' and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore, by Maria PLATT, Brenda S.A. YEOH, KHOO Choon Yen, Grace BAEY and Theodora LAM 5. Embodying the good migrant in ageing: Negotiating positive subjectivities through paid work, by Michelle G. Ong 6. Proper Conjunctions of Bodies: Chastity, Age, and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants' Families, by Michele Ruth Gamburd 7. Border-crossing as sexual subjects: Interracial dating experience of young Chinese in New Zealand, by Alex Yang Li 8. Managing Touch: The Racialized Dynamics of Intimacy in the Los Angeles Beauty Industry, by Hareem Khan 9. Index

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Book SynopsisBorder deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors, and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. Critical voices from civil society (including academia) hold states responsible for making safe journeys impossible for large parts of the world population. Meanwhile, policy-makers argue that border deaths demonstrate the need for restrictive border policies. Statistics are widely (mis)used to support different readings of border deaths. However, the way data is collected, analysed, and disseminated remains largely unquestioned. Similarly, little is known about how bodies are treated, and about the different ways in which the dead - also including the missing and the unidentified - are mourned by familiars and strangers. New concepts and perspectives contribute to highlighting the political nature of border deaths and finding ways to move forward. The chapters of this collection, co-authored by researchers and practitioners, provide the first interdisciplinary overview of this contested field.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface. The Increasing Focus on Border Deaths Paolo Cuttitta Introduction. A State-of-the-Art Exposition on Border Deaths Tamara Last Chapter 1. Various Actors: The Border Death Regime Paolo Cuttitta, Jana Häberlein and Polly Pallister-Wilkins Chapter 2. Mortality and Border Deaths Data: Key Challenges and Ways Forward Kate Dearden, Tamara Last and Craig Spencer Chapter 3. Representations of Border Deaths and the Making and Unmaking of Borders Giulia Sinatti and Renske Vos Chapter 4. Engaging Bodies as Matters of Care: Accounting for Death During Migration Amade M'Charek and Julia Black Chapter 5. Mourning Missing Migrants: Ambiguous Loss and the Grief of Strangers Giorgia Mirto, Simon Robins, Karina Horsti, Pamela J. Prickett, Deborah Ruiz Verduzco and Victor Toom Chapter 6. Enforced Disappearances and Border Deaths Along the Migrant Trail Emilio Distretti Chapter 7. Understanding the Causes of Border Deaths: A Mapping Exercise Kristof Gombeer, Orçun Ulusoy and Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche Chapter 8. Moving Forward: Between Utopian and Dystopian Visions of Migration Politics Huub Dijstelbloem, Carolyn Horn and Catriona Jarvis Afterword. From the Iron Curtain to Lampedusa Thomas Spijkerboer Index

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Book SynopsisNearly eleven million Chinese migrants live outside of China. While many of these faces of China’s globalization headed for the popular Western destinations of the United States, Australia and Canada, others have been lured by the booming Asian economies. Compared with pre-1949 Chinese migrants, most are wealthier, motivated by a variety of concerns beyond economic survival and loyal to the communist regime. The reception of new Chinese migrants, however, has been less than warm in some places. In Singapore, tensions between Singaporean-Chinese and new Chinese arrivals present a puzzle: why are there tensions between ethnic Chinese settlers and new Chinese arrivals despite similarities in phenotype, ancestry and customs? Drawing on rich empirical data from ethnography and digital ethnography, Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants investigates this puzzle and details how ethnic Chinese subjects negotiate their identities in an age of contemporary Chinese migration and China’s ascent.Trade Review“Contesting Chineseness is well organized and structured. The book provides a comprehensive summary of the theoretical background and details on the methodology and offers a nuanced analysis of how the state and people imagine nationality, class and gender in the contestation of Chineseness. Readers find multiple noteworthy ideas, which makes Contesting Chineseness a useful read for anyone interested in ethnicity, race and migration, as well as in new mobilities in Asia.” - Yanxuan Lu, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, July 2023Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Contesting Chineseness Global anxieties at China’s ascent and the outflow of Chinese immigrants The invisibilities of co-ethnic politics Immigration and the cultural politics of being Chinese Imagining Chinese identity Insider, outsider and digital ethnography Overview of the book 1 Who’s Chinese? Once a Chinese, always a Chinese Realizing the China dream De-Chineseness in Singapore Re-sinicizing Singapore Hostage to China’s rise and fall 2 Not the lower classes “We won’t go overly dressed” “I don’t dare to eat their food” “Dirty” women Sensory disturbances, repulsion, and class Denying cultural citizenship Marked as a Chinese migrant 3 A better Chinese man Hierarchy of Chinese Masculinities “We are of low quality” Higher sushi makes a better man Performing Chinese masculinity Seeking solace on WeChat Reimagining the better Chinese man 4 When a Chinese does not speak Chinese Chineseness as Mandarin Other ways to be Chinese Fragmenting identities My Chinese culture is better than your Chinese culture Civilizational or national belonging? Regulating the internet Sanitized Chineseness 5 In the new Chinatown Racialization and the politics of place The original Chinatown and the European imaginary Geylang: The new Chinatown The media’s complicity Chinese migrants react: Self Orientalisation Locals’ displacement Two Chinatowns, two imaginaries of Chineseness Conclusion: A hierarchy of Chineseness Coconstitution of China and Singapore’s Chineseness Enduring Chineseness Index

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Book SynopsisMigration in the 21st century is one of the pre-eminent issues of our present historical moment, a phenomenon that has acquired new urgency with accelerating climate change, civil wars, and growing economic scarcities. Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art and Media consists of eleven essays that explore how artists have imaginatively engaged with this monumental human drama, examining a range of alternative modes of representation that provide striking new takes on the experiences of these precarious populations. Covering prominent art works by Ai Weiwei and Richard Mosse, and extending the spectrum of representation to refugee film workshops on the island of Lésbos as well as virtual reality installations of Alejandro G. Iñárritu and works by Balkan and Turkish directors, such as Melisa Önel, the chapters included here focus on the power of aesthetic engagement to illuminate the stories of refugees and migrants in ways that overturn journalistic clichés.Trade Review"Through rigorous analysis and a transatlantic approach, this collection provides insightful examination of artworks by Western filmmakers and artists as well as migrants and refugees. An indispensable reference for the study of visual culture of mass migration in the 21st century.". Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College and Graduate Center of CUNY. "Panoramic in scope, this is a rich and stimulating anthology. In essays of highly impressive scholarship, leading voices in the field explore a diversity of aesthetic responses to what is one of the most urgent crises the world is currently facing.". Daniela Berghahn, University of London Royal Holloway.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art, and Media (Robert Burgoyne and Deniz Bayrakdar) Part I 1. Moving Peoples and Motion Pictures: Migration in Film and Other Media (Dudley Andrew) 2. Modes of Self-Representation in the Images Collectively Produced by Migrants in Lesbos Island: Natives of the New World (Nagehan Uskan) 3. Abstraction, Bare Life, and Counternarratives of Mobility in the Refugee Films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei, Incoming and Human Flow (Robert Burgoyne) 4. Across the Sonorous Desert: Sounding Migration in El Mar la Mar (Selmin Kara) 5. Dislodged from History, Confronted by Walls: Picturing Migration as a Global Emergency (Dora Apel) 6. Virtual Reality and Immersive Representation in Recent Refugee Narratives (Erik Marshall) Part II 7. The Secret Life of Waste: Recycling Dreams of Migration (Deniz Gokturk) 8. Waiting in Line, Moving in Circles: Spaces of Instability in Christian Petzold’s Transit (Eileen Rositzka) 9. Migrant Bodies in the Land/City/Seascapes of 2000s Turkish Cinema (Deniz Bayrakdar) 10. Third World On the Move: Cinematic Destination Belgrade/Serbia (Nevena Dakovic) 11. On the Borderlines of South-Eastern Europe: Migration in the Films of Aida Begic and Zelimir Zilnik (Iva Lekovic) Conclusion (Speculative) (Robert Burgoyne and Deniz Bayrakdar) References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow’s wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty provides original insights into how uncertainty shapes social practice, identity and belonging in the context of irregular migration from Vietnam to Russia. The study speaks to various debates in migration and mobility studies -- particularly those focused on brokerage networks, the political economy of sexuality, and social belonging -- deepening our knowledge of how the core social values and cultural logics that underpin Vietnamese personhood are challenged and reconstituted by the ethos of the market economy. This book sheds important light on processes of mobility and social change in post-socialist societies that continue to grapple with yawning chasms between old and new ways of life, the local and the global, policy and practice, and obsolete governance techniques and rapidly changing socio-economic realities.Trade Review"The book has two major strengths. First, Hoang’s access and immersion into the daily lives of discrete (and often, irregular) migrants involved in Russia’s black economy. Then, her ability to convey their varied and changing experiences through an embodied approach. [...] This type of ethnographic exploration is indispensable."- Valentine Gavard-Suaire, Asian Journal of Social Science, 49 (2021) "English-language sources on Vietnamese in Russia remain limited, and Hoang’s book makes an important contribution to this interesting phenomenon. The book would be most beneficial to migration studies scholars and those concerned with Russia and Vietnam in particular. However, the book also does an absolutely excellent job of offering examples of good ethnographic writing, something that many ethnographies today fall short of. Graduate and undergraduate ethnography classes would benefit considerably from the book’s ethnographic content. Hoang is also featured on the University of Melbourne’s Ear to Asia podcast discussing this research, which is a nice supplement to the book itself."- Paul Capobianco, Asian Ethnology, 80, 1 (2021) "This is an exceptionally fascinating commentary on how the uncertainty of the Moscow environment has created possibilities as well as difficulties for Vietnamese migrants. Compellingly argued, with rich ethnographic data, this is a wonderful addition to the literature on migration."- Mandy Thomas, Executive Dean, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology "Deeply compelling and irresistibly important, Lan Anh Hoang has provided an extraordinary analysis on a much-overlooked migrant community in Russia’s changing socioeconomic and racial landscape ... a significant achievement."- Hung Cam Thai, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center "This book offers a conceptually sophisticated yet fine-grained analysis of how Vietnamese migrants improvise in mastering the art of contingent living in Russia’s shadow economy. It is an important reading for all those interested in migration and mobility."- Brenda Yeoh, Professor of Geography, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsChapter I Introduction The Market Vietnamese migration to Russia Mobility in times of uncertainty Uncertain time, uncertain life Uncertainty: conceptual debates Productive and destructive uncertainty Structure of the book Chapter II Russia's post-Soviet migration regime Migration to Russia The Russian immigration regime The securitization of migration Russian migrantophobia Chapter III Navigating Russia's shadow economy Legality for sale CH? Chim - Sadovod market The migration industry The Go-betweener Chapter IV Market ethos and the volatile radius of trust Uncertainty and market moralities One for oneself Money matters Chapter V Love and sex in times of uncertainty Provisional intimacies 'Better safe than sorry' What's love got to do with it? Narratives of sex, money and morality Chapter VI Transient existence and the quest for certainty I'm here to make money, not to live Consumption as belonging Renegotiating the 'Con buôn' identity Conclusion Appendix Methodology References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an ethnographic account of education and migration from the perspective of three groups of South Koreans in contemporary China: migrant parents, children/students, and educational agents. The book reveals how these temporary migrants make choices, plan their trajectories and engage with the authorities, both in China and South Korea. Migrant subjectivities among these groups are driven by and respond to the education-migration regimes of both the sending and receiving countries. As ‘people in between’, they occupy flexible and multiple positionalities that are transnationally distributed. However, paradoxically, they experience a juxtaposition of privilege, integration and separation, which is indicative of the Chinese style of internationalisation. The book adds weight to the argument that China is a temporary destination for foreigners and not one for long-term settlement.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Temporary Residents’ Community in Beijing Chapter Three: The Internationalised Education of China and the Globalised Education of South Korea Chapter Four: Educational Desire in School Choice: Identities of Home, Destination and the World Chapter Five: Desirable Homecoming: The Pursuit of Tertiary Education in the Context of Temporary Migration Regimes Chapter Six: Internationalisation in Chinese Education: The Quest for Entry to a Top Chinese University Chapter Seven: Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the social and political mobilisation of religious communities towards forced displacement in relation to tolerance and transitory environments. How do religious actors and state bodies engage with refugees and migrants? What are the mechanisms of religious support towards forcibly displaced communities? Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia argues that when states do not act as providers of human security, religious communities, as representatives of civil society and often closer to the grass roots level, can be well placed to serve populations in need. The book brings together scholars from across the region and provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which religious communities tackle humanitarian crises in contemporary Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.Table of ContentsList of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1 Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia: An Introduction (Victoria Hudson and Lucian N. Leustean) 2 Humanitarian Action, Forced Displacement and Religion: Contemporary Research Perspectives (Ansgar Jodicke) Section I Eastern Europe 3 Religion and Forced Displacement in Modern Bulgaria (Daniela Kalkandjieva) 4 State, Religion and Refugees in Serbia: Responses of Faith-Based Organisations, 1991-1996 (Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic and Marko Vekovic) 5 Asylum and Migration System Reform: A New Role for the Orthodox Church of Greece? (Georgios E. Trantas and Eleni D. Tseligka) 6 Responding to Mass Emigration amidst Competing Narratives of Identity: The Case of the Republic of Moldova (Andrei Avram) 7 The Roman Catholic Church and Forced Displacement in Poland (Maria Marczewska-Rytko) Section II Russia and Ukraine 8 ‘My Strength Is Made Perfect in Weakness’: Russian Orthodoxy and Forced Displacement (Roman Lunkin) 9 Forced Displacement, Religious Freedom and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict (Dmytro Vovk) Section III The Caucasus 10 ‘Forgotten by Many and Remembered by Few’: Religious Responses to Forced Migration in Georgia (Tornike Metreveli) 11 Welcoming Refugees?: The Armenian Apostolic Church and Forced Displacement (Jasmine Dum-Tragut) Section IV Central Asia 12 The Response of the Metropolitan District of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan to the Emigration of Ethnic Russians from Independent Kazakhstan (Victoria Hudson) 13 .ommunity Intolerance, State Repression and Forced Displacement in the Kyrgyz Republic (Indira Aslanova) 14 Migration within and from Uzbekistan: The Role of Religion (Rano Turaeva) Index

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Book SynopsisDiaspora transformed the urban terrain of colonial societies, creating polyglot worlds out of neighborhoods, workplaces, recreational clubs, and public spheres. It was within these spaces that communities reimagined and reshaped their public identities vis-à-vis emerging government policies and perceptions from other communities. Through a century of Macanese activities in British Hong Kong, The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting explores how mixed-race diasporic communities survived within unequal, racialized, and biased systems beyond the colonizer-colonized dichotomy. Originating from Portuguese Macau yet living outside the control of the empire, the Macanese freely associated with more than one identity and pledged allegiance to multiple communal, political, and civic affiliations. They drew on colorful imaginations of the Portuguese and British empires in responding to a spectrum of changes encompassing Macau’s woes, Hong Kong’s injustice, Portugal’s political transitions, global developments in print culture, and the rise of new nationalisms during the inter-war period.Trade Review"This is a timely study of a significant ethnic and cultural group that has hitherto been largely overlooked in the history of what is described as ‘British Hong Kong'. [...] Dr Chan’s very broad and detailed range of research and her deft use of it in footnotes is very impressive."- Stuart Braga, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Vol. 62 (2022)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Between Empires Drifting empires Contesting the 'Macanese' identity Cosmopolitan and transnational arenas A kaleidoscope of Macanese experiences 1 Crossing Imperial Borders The tightknit oligarchy A clerk, a businessman and a newspaper editor Channeling Macau’s woes into Hong Kong developments 2 Sandwiched in the Workplace The roots of the Macanese as 'middle' people D'Almada's plight Grand-pre's poor performance Port wine and new opportunities 3 Horseracing, Theater and Camões Strictly male, strictly rich, strictly colored Abraço fraternal (fraternal embrace) and Camoes A stage for middle-class Macanese men 4 Macanese Publics Fight for the ‘Hongkong Man’ From Hong Kong to Lisbon to Shanghai Globalizing colonial Hong Kong The 'Hongkong man' 5 Uniting to Divide, Dividing to Unite 'Kowloon Macanese' vs. 'Hong Kong Macanese' Nationalizing the 'Portuguese of the East' Contesting Macanese patriotism Por Deus e pela Pátria: Portuguese nationalism in Hong Kong Printing and disseminating diasporic nationalism Epilogue: A Place in the Sun Being Macanese in wartime Hong Kong Rethinking identity as response Towards a world without labels Appendix: Summary of Featured Macanese Individuals Index

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Book SynopsisHow do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource - paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency.Trade Review"[...] the book strives to achieve an understanding of migration and farmers that it is “beyond” the usual. This is a refreshing, well-written, and thoughtful book. [...] The book is a significant contribution to research on migration, agriculture, and rural-urban development in China." - C. Cindy Fan, University of California, Los Angeles, The China Journal, Volume 89 (2023) “Kaufmann has produced an excellent anthropology-driven analysis… of paddy rice farmers with a focus on the complex processes of rural-urban migration in China… Her insight and analysis of the transformations of knowledge systems is first-class." - Prof. em. Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies "This wonderful innovative book explores how migration affects rural households in Central China as farmers deal with the predicament of needing to both earn money in the cities and maintain their rice fields in the village. [...] All Kaufmann's arguments are grounded in wider literatures on sociotechnical studies, the anthropology of agriculture, and migration studies."- Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford, China Information 36 (I) (2022) "Meticulously researched, the book brings together labour migration, economic transformation and agricultural knowledge transmission. With solid empirical details and innovative angle, the book makes rare contributions to understanding socioeconomic changes in China and beyond."- Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and Director of Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology "Kaufmann's wonderful study of China's migrant worlds is a must-read for anyone interested in the multiple material skills and resources that underprivileged rural populations marshal in their quest for the good life."- Francesca Bray, Edinburgh University "[...] an immensely crucial contribution in the field of anthropology of Chinese agriculture as well in the field of migration studies since it decentres the classical depiction of Chinese smallholders: [...] Kaufmann shows that these rural communities actively make choices built on a repertoire of skilled practices that are rooted in the socio-technical ground of wet rice cultivation." - Rebekka Sutter, Ethnographic Museum Zurich “[...] a compelling interpretation land-use practices and migration patterns that goes beyond dichotomies of modern vs. backward farming and narrow economic explanations. […] With thoughtful attention to those who live in the midst of its predicaments, Kaufmann has offered a great example of how research can engage complex and dynamic change across the rural–urban divide.” - Jelena Grosse-Bley, Humboldt-University of Berlin, and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, East Asian Science, Technology and SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements INTRODUCTION Arguments and aims of the book Agriculture and migration From 'migrant worlds' to 'community of practice' worlds Knowledge, repertoire, and agency Accessing the rural-urban community of practice Structure of the book References 1. HOW THE PREDICAMENT AROSE Modern agriculture in Anren County De-collectivization and marketization Abolition of the collective welfare system The new urban economy and increased migration References 2. RICE KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS IN TRANSITION Transformation of agricultural knowledge transmission Transformation of the repertoire of knowledge Agricultural deskilling and extended knowledge repertoires References 3. REFERENCE MODELS FOR TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE Transmitting farming knowledge through proverbs Educating the masses Textualizing vernacular knowledge Negotiating knowledge and farmer-state relationships References 4. TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE IN THE WAKE OF MIGRATION Tilling with power ploughs and oxen Harvesting with sickles and combine harvesters Choosing harvesting technologies Technological choice from a repertoire perspective References 5. LAND-USE STRATEGIES Sustaining intensive rice farming De-intensifying rice farming More than linear, more than technical References CONCLUSION: A SKILL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION Agency beyond resistance Decision making beyond economic reasoning Technology beyond linear progress Migration beyond dichotomies References Appendix I. Glossary II. Solar terms III. Song of the 24 Solar Terms IV. Examples of proverbs and encoded knowledge References Index

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Book SynopsisBetween 1900 and 1915, a quarter of the working-age male Greek population immigrated to the United States, Canada, and Australia. This profound demographic phenomenon left an indelible mark on Greek society, but also created new diasporic communities in the host countries. Greek immigration, Xenitia, has been studied by various disciplines, entering the popular mainstream through movies, comedy, television, academia, museums, and culinary institutions. The historical enterprise of Greek immigration in the 20th century, however, has lacked a significant archaeological voice. In this volume, new archaeological data from Epeiros, Kythera, Keos, the Southern Argolid, and the Nemea Valley highlight the effects of emigration, and data from Colorado, Philadelphia, and Sydney illustrate the effects of immigration. Abandoned households were coupled with new foundations, while a fluid transmission of moneys and resources created networks of goods and meanings far more complex than the traditional model of assimilation, economic prosperity, or the melting pot. Greek archaeology played a double role in constructing native and foreign ideologies, ranging from church foundations in the 1920s (Greek community in Philadelphia) to film productions for the war relief effort in the 1940s (documentary produced and newly restored by the American School). Finally, we see how excavated ruins inform current narratives of discovery and homecoming in a granddaughter's memoir that layers personal and textual lives with a rebuilt house. Such metanarratives (factual and idealized) reveal deep entanglements between archaeologist and immigrant.Trade ReviewIn this small book, Kostis Kourelis has made an important contribution to the field of material culture studies with a refreshingly experimental and inclusive collection of essays, by various authors, devoted to post-classical archaeology.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction (Kostis Kourelis); The Ruins of Engagement: Rural Landscapes and Greek American Immigration (Susan Buck Sutton); Household Archaeology in Australia and Kythera: Examples of Two-Way Exchange (Timothy E. Gregory and Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory); The Ludlow, Colorado, Coal Miners' Massacre of 1914: The Greek Connection (Philip Duke); From Greek Revival to Greek America: Archaeology and Transformation in Saint George Orthodox Cathedral of Philadelphia (Kostis Kourelis); Exploring the Relationship of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens with the Greek Omogeneia in the 1940s (Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan); Home Again: The Recreation of a House, and a History, in Epeiros (Eleni N. Gage); Views on "The Archaeology of Xenitia" from the Patrida (Jack L. Davis).

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume were asked to think about a panic involving race and migration of immediate concern to them. The results are a collection of essays which deal with the fabrication of an idea of race and its historical dimensions.

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume were asked to think about a panic involving race and migration of immediate concern to them. The results are a collection of essays which deal with the fabrication of an idea of race and its historical dimensions.

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Book SynopsisNation and Migration provides a way to understand recent migration events in Europe that have attracted the world's attention. The emergence of the nations in the West promised homogenization, but instead the imagined national communities have everywhere become places of heterogeneity, and modern nation states have been haunted by the specter of minorities. This study analyses experiences relating to migration in 23 European countries. It is based on data from the International Social Survey Programme, a global cross-national collaborative exercise, with surveys made in 1995, 2003, and 2013. In the authors' view, a critical test for Europe will be its ability to find adequate responses to the challenges of globalization. The book provides a detailed overview of how citizens in Europe are coping with a xenophobia fueled by their own sense of insecurity. The authors reconstruct the competing sociological reactions to migration in the forms of integration, assimilation and segregation. Hungary receives special attention: the data show that people living there are far less closed and xenophobic than they might seem through the prism of a media-instigated moral panic.Table of ContentsIntroduction Research Questions The Rise of Nations. Modernity and Nations Coming into Existence National Identity in Europe. The Knowledge Base of National Identity Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Europe. The European Crisis and Xenophobia Migration, new minorities, and the social integration of migrant groups Summary Epilogue Literature

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Book SynopsisBy addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of uncommon personalities. István and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of scientists from the early twentieth century to the present. Although these exodes were driven by a broad variety of personal motivations, the attraction of an open society with inclusiveness, tolerance, and – needless to say – better circumstances for working and living, was the chief force drawing them abroad. While emigration from East to West is a general phenomenon, this book explains why and how the emigration of Hungarian scientists is distinctive. The high number of Nobel Prizes among this group is only one indicator. Multicultural tolerance, a quickly emerging, considerably Jewish, urban middle class, and a very effective secondary school system were positive legacies of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Multiple generations, shaped by these conditions, suffered from the increasingly exclusionist, intolerant, antisemitic, and economically stagnating environment, and chose to go elsewhere. “I would rather have roots than wings, but if I cannot have roots, I shall use wings," explained Leo Szilard, one of the fathers of the Atom Bomb.Table of ContentsForeword (Ivan T. Berend) Introduction Preface Joseph A. Galamb Philipp Lenard Part 1, Early 1920s Introduction: Fleeing Ervin Bauer Stephen Brunauer Ladislaus Farkas Dennis Gabor George de Hevesy Theodore von Kármán Arthur Koestler Stephen W. Kuffler Nicholas Kurti Cornelius Lanczos John von Neumann Egon Orowan Michael Polanyi George Pólya Elizabeth Rona Leo Szilard Maria Telkes Edward Teller Eugene P. Wigner “Control”—Imre Bródy Part 2, Late 1930s – Early 1940s Introduction: Before It Is Too Late Michael and Alice Balint Ladislao José Biro Paul Erdos John G. Kemeny Olga Kennard Peter D. Lax George J. Popjak Valentine L. Telegdi Laszlo Tisza Part 3, Immediate Post-World War II Introduction: Post-War and Pre-Soviet Trauma, Endre A. Balazs Zoltan Bay Georg von Békésy Lars Ernster John C. Harsanyi Avram Hershko Georg and Eva Klein Albert Szent-Györgyi Part 4, 1956 Introduction: In the Wake of Suppressed Revolution Laszlo Z. Bito Andy Grove Peter Lengyel Joseph Nagyvary George A. Olah Gabor A. Somorjai Part 5, 1957‒1989 Introduction: Escape from “Paradise” Gyorgy Buzsaki Gabor Fodor Katalin Karikó Charles Simonyi Agnes Ullmann “Control”—Árpád Furka Conclusion: Thirty Years Later, and Continuing Acknowledgments Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisA work on migration in Asia that deftly blends sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology, and spirituality to show that migration, is a universal phenomenon, thanks in part to globalization, must be a constant concern of the Church's mission.

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Book SynopsisAlthough the Horn of Africa was historically one of the earliest destinations for Yemeni migrants, it has been overlooked by scholars, who have otherwise meticulously documented the Yemeni presence in the Indian Ocean region. Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States draws on rich ethnographic and historical research to examine the interaction of the Yemeni diaspora with states and empires in Djibouti and Ethiopia from the early twentieth century, when European powers began to colonize the region. In doing so, it aims to counter a dominant perspective in Indian Ocean studies that regards migrants across the region as by-products of personal networks and local oceanic systems, which according to most scholarship led to cosmopolitan spaces and hybrid cultures. Samson Bezabeh argues that far from being free from the restrictions of state and empire, these migrant communities were constrained, and their agency structured, by their interactions with the institutions and relations of states and empires in the region. Elegantly combining theoretical readings with extensive empirical findings, this study documents a largely forgotten period in the history of Yemeni migration as well as contributing to the wider debates on class, citizenship, and ethnicity in relation to diaspora groups. It will appeal to specialists in Middle East studies and to those who study the Indian Ocean and Horn of Africa regions, as well as to migration and diaspora studies scholars, nongovernmental organizations, and policy makers concerned with the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region.Trade Review"Samson Bezabeh builds on Aihwa Ong and others to show how migrant networks and 'cosmopolitanism' in the space of flows of the Indian Ocean, are deeply structured by territorial powers of empire and state. His case of Yemeni traders in Djibouti is fascinating in its own right and wonderfully executed. In Bezabeh's hands it is turned into an eloquent and important argument of taking state formations seriously and refuse the facile opposition of flows versus hierarchies that has marked much of migration studies, and of Indian Ocean studies as well."--Don Kalb, Central European University, Budapest"This fine study of Yemeni migration in the Horn of Africa by a brilliant Ethiopian scholar should be a wake-up call for the entire field of Indian Ocean studies. In a powerful critique of tired and overused concepts like 'hybridity, ' 'transnational flows, ' and 'cosmopolitanism, ' which have been routinely used to convey a sense of unity of the Indian Ocean world, Samson Bezabeh brings the state back in--and politics."--Andre Wink, University of Wisconsin-Madison"This rich and diverse work is a major step in the creation of a body of social science work on Djibouti that is now in process. It shows why Djibouti should be included in current studies of the Near East and East Africa. It opens new trails and helps us understand aspects of the social history of Djibouti that go well beyond the Yemenis."--Simon Imbert-Vier, Universite de Provence, Aix Marseille"

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Book SynopsisA vivid ethnography of Egyptian migrants to the Arab Gulf states, Migrant Dreams is about the imagination which migration thrives on, and the hopes and ambitions generated by the repeated experience of leaving and returning home. What kind of dreams for a good or better life drives labor migrants? What does being a migrant worker do to one’s hopes and ambitions? How does the experience of migration to the Gulf, with its attendant economic and legal precarities, shape migrants’ particular dreams of a better life? What do those dreams—be they realistic and productive, or fantastic and unlikely—do to the social worlds of the people who pursue them, and to their families and communities back home upon their return? Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork and conversations with Egyptian men from mostly low-income rural backgrounds who migrated as workers to the Gulf, returned home, and migrated again over a period of about a decade, this fine-grained study explores and engages with these questions and more, as the men reflect on their strivings and the dreams they hope to fulfill. Throughout the book, Samuli Schielke highlights the story of one man, Tawfiq, who is particularly gifted at analyzing his own situation and struggles, resulting in a richly nuanced account that will appeal not only to Middle East scholars, but to anyone interested in the lived lives of labor migrants and what their experiences ultimately mean to them.Trade Review“At its best, anthropology does not only make you learn about certain people. It positions you among them and makes you learn with them. You gain a sense of not only where they are, but also where they want to be and don’t want to be. Thus you start thinking the world anew with the people you are reading about. Migrant Dreams is anthropology at its best.”—Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne“Timely in its focus and innovative in its style, this book is a welcomed and valuable contribution to the anthropology of migration in general and the Middle East in particular. Moving us beyond rigid binaries between structure and agency, individual and society, and money and morals, this ethnography promises to enrich our understanding of migrants’ dreams, imaginations, struggles, frustrations, and triumphs.” —Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore College"This is a book to cherish for scholars and students of labor migration across the global South."—Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham"Migrant Dreams will make an excellent addition to any library and undergraduate or graduate course reading list, particularly those on global migration and capital flows, hope and subjectivity, or the Middle East. Highly recommended."—CHOICE"Schielke has clearly engaged his subjects, Tawfiq and friends. The rich descriptions where he deliberately includes himself make the reader feel as though they are by his side, talking and observing along with him. It is worth reading."—Middle East Journal"[This] multi-sited ethnographic approach, coupled with the sensitivity that the author demonstrates in his conversations with Egyptian migrants, make for an empirically rich account of labor migration to the Gulf. . . This is a book to cherish for scholars and students of labor migration across the global South."—Mashriq & Mahjar"The book is a captivating read, written in a veryfluent manner. . . Schielke’s curiosity is contagious: in the chaptersthere are brief discussions of Sufi poetry, white privilege, comparisons ofromance and flirting in the Arab world, views on Nepalese conceptions of natureand numerous other topics. . . The book radiates fresh perspectives to bigquestions of our times and is recommended reading for everyone who wishes to understandthe world through an anthropologist’s eyes."—Suomen Antropologi, Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society"Inherently interesting work of original scholarship. . . an extraordinary study and one that should be a part of every college and university library Contemporary Egyptian Social Issues collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists."—Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Preface 1. Truman Show 2. The Travel to Doha 3. Guarding the Bank 4. A Narrow Circle 5. Enduring and Resisting 6. Families Only 7. Everything Circles around Money Here 8. Things Money Must Buy 9. Dreaming of the Inevitable 10. To Have Other Dreams 11. A Bigger Prison 12. Until the End of Oil 13. Normality and Excess 14. Estrangement and Faith 15. The Shine of the Metropolis 16: Economy is Not Rational, and Fantasy is not Free References

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Book SynopsisThis book collects the main papers written by George Borjas on the economics of immigration during a decades-long career. Although there was little interest in immigration issues among economists before the 1980s, the literature has exploded since. The essays collected in this book represent some of the contributions that helped build the foundations of immigration economics. The essays cover a wide range of topics, including the assimilation of immigrants, the skill characteristics of the immigrant population, the intergenerational progress of immigrant households, the measurement of the impact of immigrants on the labor markets of receiving countries, and the calculation of the economic benefits from immigration. The essays included in this volume continue to be widely cited and have often set the research agenda for subsequent research on immigration in both receiving and sending countries.

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Book SynopsisAs globalization and the flow of labor across the world accelerated during the latter part of the 20th century, the presence of foreign-born workers in a country's labor market became one of the most prominent and controversial features of modern economies. Countries that facilitated the arrival of foreign-born individuals often benefited from the increase in labor supply. An important channel for the benefits is through lower prices for consumer goods and services in the host country. This is not surprising because immigration is just another form of international trade, which often leads to cost savings and more diversity in the market. The immigrants themselves have also gained from international migration as it provides an opportunity to improve one's standard of living, pass remittances to family in the country of origin, and find new opportunities for general human flourishing in newly adopted surroundings.Despite the myriad benefits that can result from the free movement of labor around the world, there is still deep concern and political debate about immigration's aftermath. The main economic concern, apart from social concerns such as social cohesion, centers on whether international migrants adversely impact labor market opportunities of natives.The labor market prospects for foreign-born individuals, both in an absolute sense and in comparison to natives, are also very different across continents, as well as between countries that are in close proximity to one another. This variation could be driven by differences in the flexibility and structure of the host country's labor market or differences in the characteristics of the immigrants themselves. Examining the relative importance of these and other possible factors is another main theme in the study of immigration and the labor market. It is also addressed in the research presented in this Handbook.

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted about 1 billion migrants (both international and domestic) in a variety of ways, and this book demonstrates how COVID-19 has widened the gaps between citizens, non-migrant and migrant populations in terms of income, job retention, freedom of movement, vaccine etc.While there is an emerging literature studying the impacts of COVID-19 on migration, the situation in Southeast Asia has not received much scholarly attention. This book fills the literature gap by studying the experiences of migrants and citizens in Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore and highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated inequalities between and within the groups. These three countries are studied due to their high reliance of migrants in key economic sectors. Findings in this volume are derived from a qualitative approach, complemented by secondary data sources.This book is appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate students of population studies, epidemiology, political science, public policy and administration, international relations, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and migration and refugee studies. Migration and labour scholars benefit from the nuanced comprehension about how a pandemic could cause a schism between migrants and the population at large. Policymakers may consider the proposed recommendations in the book to improve the migration situation.

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Book SynopsisInitially upheld as a bastion of success in curbing the spread of COVID-19, Singapore eventually found itself home to the highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia. Over 90% of its cases in 2020 occurred among the 300,000 migrant construction workers primarily from Bangladesh, India, and China who live as part of a transient population in this city-state.This collection looks beyond the immediacy of heightened concerns surrounding the migrant worker population in the time of the COVID-19 crisis. It gives attention to broader questions of migrant lives and labour in a city-state that has thrived on migration since its beginnings as a colonial entrepôt. Serving as a primer for the general and academic reader interested in developing a richer understanding of the structural conditions of migrant construction work, the book draws together key studies on migrant construction work in Singapore.The chapters in this volume, contributed by a range of academic experts, spotlight the processes of unequal global development, precarious work, and welfare exclusion that have rendered low-waged labour migrants especially vulnerable to the pandemic. They also highlight migrant men's social identities beyond the sphere of work by attending to their experiences and strategies as members of transnational families and social-cultural communities. Accompanying the chapters are short reflections from the authors that not only summarise the findings but also provide updates on the research context in view of the recent situation.

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Book SynopsisSingapore's success as a global city is in no small part attributable to its stance on foreign labour and immigrants, illustrated by a largely welcoming but discerning immigration regime to fulfil vital socio-economic needs. However, this fairly liberal policy on immigration has been met with substantial disquiet over the last decade. Xenophobic tendencies have surfaced periodically and have been compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic.This edited volume spotlights these contemporary issues on immigrant integration in Singapore, and adopts a functional approach by explicitly bridging academic and practitioner perspectives. The chapters are organised into three sections. The first section on Challenges discusses various dominant trends — obstacles to immigrant integration based on ethnicity, culture and religion, and the fear and associated emotions that characterise reactions to immigration. The second section focuses on Communities, their perspectives and lived experiences in Singapore society. The latter differ substantially depending on migrant statuses and are contingent on social capital defined in relation to locals in the city-state. The last section seeks to illustrate the various Solutioning endeavours in tandem with the contentious nature of immigration. These concrete efforts range from ground-up initiatives, community-based collaborative approaches and government programming; all seeking to advance immigrant integration in Singapore.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the past, present, and future of migration in the Arctic. It addresses many of the critical dynamics of immigration and migration, and emerging challenges that now confront the region. What can be learned from the past? What are the challenges and solutions of tomorrow?Migration in the Arctic is a fascinating and topical - but less studied - phenomenon that influences various societal levels, such as education. The book introduces research on economic, social, and educational perspectives of migration in the region. It provides analysis of minorities immigrating to the North without neglecting the viewpoint of indigenous people of the Arctic.Contributors comprise researchers from various Arctic countries. Multidisciplinary research provides a unique viewpoint to the theme. The book is suitable for researchers and teachers of higher education as well as anyone interested in Arctic studies and (im)migration.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction.- Part 1 Historical Approaches to (Im)migration in the Arctic.- Chapter 2 Historical Perspectives of the Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic.- Chapter 3 Nomadic Narratives of Sámi Peoples’ Migration in Historic and Modern Times.- Chapter 4 Immigrant Women and Their Social Adaptation in the Arctic.- Part 2 Present Dialogue and Discourses.- Chapter 5 Newcomers to Ancestral Lands: Immigrant Pathways in Anchorage, Alaska.- Chapter 6 A ‘Micro-Macro’ Factor Analysis of the Determinants of Economic Integration of Immigrants: A Theoretical Approach.- Chapter 7 How to Enhance Immigrant Students’ Participation in Arctic Schools?.- Part 3 Viewpoints to the Future.- Chapter 8 The Determinants of Economic Integration of Immigrants in the Nordic countries.- Chapter 9 Arctic Education in the Future.- Chapter 10 Human Strength-spotting at School as the Future Foundation of “us” in the Arctic.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a sociological study of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India. It invites readers to understand disasters and crises as triggers of radical transformations in society, changing the very nature of every day and the meaning of normal. It discusses the processes through which society accepts, internalizes and reinvents a new way of life. It provides insights into its impact on the individual, family, economy and the state and the relationships not only between them but also within them. The chapters draw attention to the concerns of the vulnerable sections of the population – the aged, children, women, the disabled, migrant labour and the economically backward classes. The chapters are written in an engaging style, and each chapter investigates the way societies think about the risk, threat and harm and the ways to navigate crises of all kinds. As such, the book provides a key read for academics, students and administrators, as well as general readers confronted by an existential crisis caused by the pandemic.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: ‘The New Normal’: Home and the World Through the Looking Glass CHAPTER 2: Gendering The Pandemic: Revisiting The Domestic Space In Times of COVID-19 CHAPTER 3: Home, the Vulnerable and the Pandemic CHAPTER 4: Bringing the World Inside Home: Media, Advertisements and Changing forms of Consumerism CHAPTER 5: Dealing with the fear and social stigma of the Pandemic: Medley of preventive healthcare practices in India CHAPTER 6: Higher Education And The COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences, Lessons And Future Prospects CHAPTER 7: Locking Down The Daily Wage Laborers ...The Continuum Of Socio-Economic Suffering CHAPTER 8: The Pandemic And The Migrant Workers: Experiences Form The Margins

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. ​The Origins of Watercraft in the North Pacific and its role in Northeast Asian Prehistory.- 2. Synthetic perspective on prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptation and landscape change in northern Japan.- 3. Over the Water into and out of the Japanese Archipelago during the Pleistocene: Humans, Obsidian, and Lithic Techniques.- 4. Human Behavior in the Insular World of the Okhotsk and Japan Seas during the Late Pleistocene/Holocene Transition and Between the late Palaeolithic/Neolithic Boundaries.- 5. Maritime prehistory of Korea: an archaeological review.- 6. The Origins of Aquatic Subsistence Practices among Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers during the Late Pleistocene/Holocene Transition in the Russian Far East.- 7. A Hypothesis Pertaining to the Initial Dispersal of Pottery Production in East Asia; A View from the Far East.- 8. From Continent to Continent: proposed pathways of human travel from Kamchatka to America in ancient times.- 9. Digital Characterization of the Stemmed Projectile Point Technology from the Ushki Lake Site, Layer VII, Kamchatka, Russia.- 10. The Onset of Maritime Adaptation in Eastern Chukotka and the Emergence of Marine Economies and Seafaring Activities between 8000 - 3500 years Before Present.- 11. Evidence of Maritime Adaptations During the Neolithic Period in the Primorye Region of the Russian Far East.- 12. Watercraft in the Context of Marine Adaptations in Peter the Great Bay.- 13. Seafaring in the Bohai State.

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Book SynopsisFast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result, and the durability of the Singapore economy during this same crisis, have helped to sustain this attention.The study of the overseas Chinese has by now become a global enterprise, raising new theoretical problems and empirical challenges. New case studies of overseas Chinese, such as those on communities in North America, Cuba, India, and South Africa, continually unveil different perspectives. New kinds of transnational connectivities linking Chinese communities are also being identified. It is now possible to make broader generalizations of a Chinese diaspora, on a global basis. Further, the intensifying study of the overseas Chinese has stimulated renewed intellectual vigor in other areas of research. The transnational and transregional activities of overseas Chinese, for example, pose serious challenges to analytical concepts of regional divides such as that between East and Southeast Asia.Despite the increased attention, new data, and the changing theoretical paradigms, basic questions concerning the overseas Chinese remain. The papers in this volume seek to understand the overseas Chinese migrants not just in terms of the overall Chinese diaspora per se, but also local Chinese migrants adapting to local societies, in different national contexts.Table of ContentsChinese and "oversees" - identifications and identities of a transnational community: five great Southeast Asian Chinese empire-builders, what did they have in common? J. Mackie; providers, protectors, guardians - migration and reconstruction of masculinities, R. Hibbins; tasting the night - food, ethic transaction, and the pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia, S.-C. Yao; multiple identities among the returned overseas Chinese in Hong Kong, J.C. Kong. Chinese or Western education? Cultural choices and education: Chinese education and the formation of national and cultural identity among overseas Chinese in modern Japan - a study of Chuka Dobun Gakko (Dongwen Chinese School) in Kobe, W.-M. Ng; Chinese education in pre-war Singapore - Chinese vernacular schools, T.B. Wee; Hokkien immigrant society and modern education in British Malaya, C.H. Yen; the search for modernity - the Chinese in Sabah and English education, D. T.-K. Wong. Fitting in - social integration in the host society: language, education, and occupational attainment of foreign-trained Chinese in Toronto, Canada, Z. Li; career and family factors in immigrant adjustment, S.-E. Khoo and A. Mak; no longer migrants - southern New Zealand Chinese in the 20th century, N. Pawakapan; Singapore Chinese society in transition - reflections on the cultural implications of modern education, G.K. Lee.

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Book SynopsisChina has an estimated 120-150 million internal migrants from the countryside living in its cities. These people are the engine that has been driving China's high rate of economic growth. However, until recently, little or no attention has been given to the establishment of a social protection regime for migrant workers. This volume examines the key issues involved in establishing social protection for them, including a critical examination of deficiencies in existing arrangements and an in-depth study of proposals that have been offered for extending social security coverage. Featuring contributions from leading academics outside China who have written on the topic as well as experts from leading Chinese academic institutions such as Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Development Research Center in the State Council, this volume provides a comprehensive account from both inside and outside China.Table of ContentsEstablishing Social Security for China?s Migrant Workers: Problems and Prospects; Labor Market Integration and Social Protection: Labor and Social Security Reform for Migrant Workers; The Design of Social Security for Migrant Workers: Moving Toward an Integrated Labor Market; Employment and Social Security of Rural Migrants in Chinese Cities; Migrant Participation in Social Security Schemes: Treatment of the Rural Migrant Population as Citizens and Social Justice; Which Migrants Want to Join Urban Social Security Schemes?; Why Do Migrant Workers Not Participate in Urban Social Security Schemes?; A Comparative Study of the Social Protection Access of Rural-Urban Migrants and the Urban Poor; Migrant Workers in Shanghai: Social Protection Issues and Options; Migrant Alternatives to State-Sponsored Social Protection: The Household as Security: Strategies of Rural-Urban Migrants in China; Getting by Without State-Sponsored Social Insurance; Migrant Housing and Migrant Welfare.

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Book SynopsisThis book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asians living in the Far East. The diverse range and scope of the papers demonstrate the interdisciplinary, convoluted and intertwined perspectives in human transnational movement.The book comprises four thematic sections, in Intercultural Relations and Social Integration, cross-national interactions and the notion of rootedness and nation state among individuals and their families form the nexus of discussion. On Cultural Competency in Workplace and Social Environment, the individuals and their performance in the social and corporate spheres take center stage. On one hand, both Asians and non-Asians share similar challenges across cultures, but on the other, they each reported different social and workplace dynamics as a consequence of their ethnic cultural background. In Sociocultural Effectiveness and Emotional Adaptation, the focus gravitates toward socio-emotional adjustment of Asian and Western sojourners in cultures opposite their own. In order to appreciate the cultural and emotive dimensions, discursive examination and comparative analysis across geographic locations are needed. The last thematic category in Understanding Asian Migration in Asia, a ubiquitous challenge in Asian societies will be presented — the rural-urban labor migration movement in China.Table of ContentsAcculturation and Social Cohesion: Emerging Issues for Asian Immigrants in New Zealand; Migrating Talent: Subsequent Mobility of Recent Asian Immigrants To and From New Zealand; Immigration and Integration: The Canadian Experience; Preparing Immigrants for the Economically Advanced World: Application of an Economy-Based Theoretical Framework to Intercultural Training; Westerners in Taiwanese Firms: Workplace Cultural Encounters; Sociocultural Competence for Career Success and Social Integration: The Case of Asians in Australia; Show Me the Money!A" Construct and Predictive Validation of the Intercultural Business Corruptibility Scale (IBCS); A Study in Cross-Cultural Adjustment: The American Community in India; Expectations and Real Life Cross-cultural Adaptation of Chinese Students in China and The Netherlands; The Influence of Adult Attachment Styles on Urban Residents' Attitudes towards Acculturation Strategies of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China.

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Book SynopsisThere has been an undisputed increase in the importance of migration over the past decades. It is one of the effects of an increasingly globalized world, where capitalism and free trade are gaining prominence. Migration in East and Southeast Asia aims to bring migration-related problems in Asia to the forefront. The first part of the book deals with migration in Greater China, a region influenced by Confucianism. The 'three Chinas' used to have a close connection in the past, and presently share much similarity. The Hong Kongese and Taiwanese societies are based on migration from Mainland China. However, each society has endured significant social, economic, and political changes. The second part of the book offers a closer look at migration flows in Southeast Asia. Most of the intra-ASEAN migration involves low-skilled labor for construction, agriculture, and domestic work. This book hopes to offer valuable insights into various topics related to migration in the region.

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Book SynopsisThe Economics of International Migration is a collection of the fundamental articles written by Giovanni Peri on the economic determinants and consequences of international migration. These papers have provided the theoretical framework and empirical analysis for a rethinking of the economics of migration, going beyond the Canonical model of labor demand and supply used until the 1990s. Beginning with a simple model that recognizes the differences between immigrants and natives as workers, the articles develop the analysis of complementarity, specialization and productivity effect of immigrants in developed economies. The book then presents a series of papers analyzing and testing the economic motivation for international migration. Finally, the focus is shifted to the effect of immigration policies and their consequences on immigration and the economy.

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