{"product_id":"global-asian-city-9781119380009","title":"Global Asian City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Asian City\u003c\/i\u003eprovides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on more than 120 interviews of emigrants to Seoulincluding migrant workers from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, English teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA, and international students at two elite Korean universities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a comparative account of different migrant populations and the ways in which national migration systems and urban processes create differences between these groups\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on the causes of international migrant to Seoul, South Korea, and reveals how migration has transformed the city and nation, especially in the last two decades\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This intriguing piece of work casts migrants as urban actors, desires as social forces, and the city as assemblage. This work helps readers understand how migrants, desire, and the city shape each other through their encounters. It leads us to view the relationship between migration and cities in the East Asian context through the lens of the making and re-making of Seoul.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaeRan Shin, Department of Geography, Seoul National University\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This is one of the first books to bring together two critical developments in 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century Asia: the emergence of global cities and increasing immigration. Empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated and methodologically innovative, the book reveals how the making of Seoul as a global city is deeply entwined with migration as a process of becoming at the individual level.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBiao Xiang, School of Anthropology \u0026amp; Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Desire, Assemblage and Encounter: Beyond Regimes of Migration Management 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Migration Regimes, Migrant Biographies and Discrepancy 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Migration, the Urban Periphery and the Politics of Migrant Lives 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Channelling Desire and Diversity 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Negotiating Privilege and Precarity in Suburban Seoul 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Multicultural Presence and Fractured Futures 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Conclusion 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 209\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407041929559,"sku":"9781119380009","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119380009.jpg?v=1730497974","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-asian-city-9781119380009","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}