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Book SynopsisProviding 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 impo
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“…this book is a worthy addition to migration research and Asian studies. It is warmly recommended to scholars, advanced graduate students, and anyone else interested in people on the move in Asia and beyond.” · Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute
“Wind Over Water is the most up-to-date edited compilation on migration in East Asia, successfully raises a range of theoretical and methodological issues, and shines the spotlight on new fields of inquiry that will surely spur further research.” · International Migration Review
“In sixteen substantive chapters, this collection presents a dramatic picture of the diversity of Asian mobility…all the studies are worth reading…[They offer] an introductory overview, which should whet the reader’s appetite to explore the themes further.” · The Journal of Asian Studies
“The book represents the culmination of a series of interdisciplinary conversations between East Asian and North American scholars and presents case studies that demonstrate the complexity and fluidity in contemporary migrations in East Asia, including Vietnam and Singapore…[It] will be a useful resource for academics and postgraduate students in migration and social policy.” · Ethnic and Racial Studies
“This collection of essays…should be welcomed by a broad audience, such as academics and practitioners interested in migration and ethnicity. Given its timely content and tight writing style, the editors should be commended for their enterprising entry into the important field of international migration studies, and for compiling an insightful and engaging book.” · Pacific Affairs
Table of Contents List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
David Haines, Shinji Yamashita, and J. S. Eades
Part I: Migrants, States, and Cities
Chapter 1. Human Trade in Colonial Vietnam
Nicolas Lainez
Chapter 2. Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and Institutions
Xiang Biao
Chapter 3. Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of China
Zhang Jijiao
Chapter 4. Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore’s Changing Demography, Identity, and Landscape
Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam
Chapter 5. A Transnational Community and Its Impact on Local Power Relations in Urban China: The Case of Wangjing “Koreatown” in the Early 2000s
Kwang-Kyoon Yeo
Chapter 6. Immigration, Policies, and Civil Society in Hamamatsu, Central Japan
Keiko Yamanaka
Part II: Family, Gender, Lifestyle, and Culture
Chapter 7. Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodological Implications
Hy V. Luong
Chapter 8. Cross-Border Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Chinese Men: The Integration of Otherness and the Impact of Popular Representations
Caroline Grillot
Chapter 9. Achieving and Restoring Masculinity through Homeland Return Visits
Hung Cam Thai
Chapter 10. Mothers on the Move: Transnational Child-Rearing by Japanese Women Married to Pakistani Migrants
Masako Kudo
Chapter 11. Here, There, and In-between: Lifestyle Migrants from Japan
Shinji Yamashita
Chapter 12. Moving and Touring in Time and Place: Korean National History Tourism to Northeast China
Okpyo Moon
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
Haeng-ja Sachiko Chung
Chapter 14. African Traders in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Gordon Mathews
Chapter 15. Negotiating “Home” and “Away”: Singaporean Professional Migrants in China
Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie Willis
Chapter 16. “Guarded Globalization”: The Politics of Skill Recognition on Migrant Health Care Workers
Mika Toyota
Conclusion
Keiko Yamanaka, David W. Haines, J. S. Eades, Nelson Graburn, Jianxin Wang, and Bernard Wong
About the Contributors
Bibliography
Index
