Overview
- Draws together the complicated threads of migration that exist in China and elsewhere in Asia
- Offers insights into the realities of human migration in Asia
- Offers variety in theme and approach to migration in Southeast and East Asia
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Migration (IPMI, volume 10)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Migration and Its Impacts in China and Asia
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International Migration and Marriage
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Migrant’s Education and Employment
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Return Migration
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Keywords
- Anthropological or ethnological approach
- Asylum seekers
- Economic aspects of migration
- Global migration phenomena
- Highly skilled migrants
- Human migration in Asia
- Immigrant self-employment
- Lives of migrants and their communities
- Marriage migration
- Migrant's education and emlpoyment
- Migration studies
- Multiculturalism
- National boundaries
- Rapid economic development
- Return flows to China
- Role of homeland languages in education
- Sustaining Chinese communities
- Urban geography
- Workings of ethnic entrepreneurs
About this book
This book will enlarge our grasp of global migration phenomena, offering insights into the fascinating, at times startling, realities of human migration in Asia. The chapters presented in this volume offer variety in not only theme but in approach to migration in Southeast and East Asia. Particularly welcome for a volume on migration studies, a discipline that has long been dominated by economists, sociologists, and geographers, are the chapters that approach the subject from an anthropological or ethnological perspective. These chapters bring to our attention details of the lives of migrants and their communities that are often lost in studies of migration statistics, the economic aspects of migration, or aspects of urban geography with which we have become more familiar.
Some chapters are more theoretical in nature and herein lie some of the most important reasons for studying migration involving Asian countries: migration studies have, until relatively recently, developed their theoretical insights on the basis of European migration to North America. Asian migration offers new theoretical challenges to migration scholars; its dynamism is such that predictions of what is to come are not for the risk averse. The empirical studies here provide fascinating details of the strategies used by asylum seekers, of marriage migration, of the role of homeland languages in education, of the workings of ethnic entrepreneurs, of the media’s role in sustaining Chinese communities, and on the incentive structures that are helping to shape return flows to China.
For readers who are from Asian countries, this book will illuminate the changes that are taking place in your region as a result of migration. For readers from developed and other societies, it will provide new insights into migration involving this understudied part of the world, an area that supplies the lion’s share of immigrants to developed economies, and the area whose rapid economicdevelopment will soon make it their greatest competition for migrants, especially the highly skilled.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration in China and Asia
Book Subtitle: Experience and Policy
Editors: Jijiao Zhang, Howard Duncan
Series Title: International Perspectives on Migration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8759-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8758-1Published: 23 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7801-5Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8759-8Published: 08 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2214-9805
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Sociology, general, Social Work, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Anthropology, Population Economics