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International Migration in Southeast Asia

Continuities and Discontinuities

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Editors:
  1. Kwen Fee Lian

    1. Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Gadong,, Brunei Darussalam

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  2. Md Mizanur Rahman

    1. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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  3. Yabit bin Alas

    1. Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Continuing Education Centre, Bandar Seri Begawan, Gadong, Brunei Darussalam

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  • Approaches the field of international migration from an intra- and inter-regional migration perspective
  • Reveals new and old patterns of international migration in the region and discusses its complexities
  • Offers an Southeast Asian perspective on international migration
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Asia in Transition (AT, volume 2)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Making Sense of Inter and Intraregional Mobility in Southeast Asia

    • Kwen Fee Lian, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Yabit bin Alas
    Pages 1-12

  3. Weaving Life Across Borders: The Cham Muslim Migrants Traversing Vietnam and Malaysia

    • Angie Ngoc Tran
    Pages 13-37

  4. Middle Class Filipinos and the Formation of Diasporic National Communities in the United Arab Emirates

    • Naomi Hosoda
    Pages 39-56

  5. ‘Balik Kampung’: The Practice of Transborder Retirement Migration in Johor, Malaysia

    • Bin Khidzer Mohammad Khamsya
    Pages 57-82

  6. Contextualising Geographies of Education-Induced Skilled Migration: How Mobile Malaysians End up in Singapore, London, and Kuala Lumpur

    • Sin Yee Koh
    Pages 83-102

  7. Postcolonial Indian Labour Migration to Malaysia: Trajectories, Trends and Tensions

    • Mahalingam Marimuthu
    Pages 103-123

  8. Migration and Employment: A Study of Bangladeshi Male Migrant Workers in Malaysia

    • Rayhena Sarker
    Pages 125-148

  9. Interrupted Histories: Arab Migrations to Pre-colonial Philippines

    • Teresita Cruz-del Rosario
    Pages 149-165

  10. Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH) in Hong Kong

    • A. K. M. Ahsan Ullah
    Pages 167-179

  11. Packaging Talent: The Migrant Creative Labor Management of Overseas Filipino Musicians

    • Anjeline de Dios
    Pages 181-209

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 211-216
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About this book

This book is a collection of work by migration scholars and researchers who are actively conducting fieldwork in Southeast Asia. It presents a wide variety of current research and approaches the field of international labor migration from a regional perspective, acknowledging that the migration process goes beyond local and national boundaries and is embedded in regional and global interconnections. The chapters capture the complexity and richness of the migration phenomenon and experience, which manifests itself in a multitude of ways in a region well known for its diversity. The collection highlights the continuities and discontinuities in the linkages that have been forged through the movement of people between sending and receiving societies. Such linkages are explained by distinguishing between migration that has been sustained by a colonial past and migration that has been precipitated by globalization in the last two decades. The diversity of issues in the region covered by this volume will encourage a rethink of some of the conventional views of migration scholarship and result in a more critical reflection of how we approach migration research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Gadong,, Brunei Darussalam

    Kwen Fee Lian

  • Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Md Mizanur Rahman

  • Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Continuing Education Centre, Bandar Seri Begawan, Gadong, Brunei Darussalam

    Yabit bin Alas

About the editors

Prof Lian Kwen Fee was formerly Head of the Department of Sociology in the National University of Singapore before taking up an appointment in the Institute of Asian Studies as Professor of Sociology. His academic background is in political and historical sociology. His research interests are in race, migration, and the nation-state focusing on New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore. His recent publications are on migrant entrepreneurship in colonial Malaysia, migrant remittances in Asia, migration entrepreneurship in Korea and Japan and race and politics in Peninsular Malaysia. He is currently editing a book on ‘Multiculturalism, Migration and the Politics of Identity in Singapore' and co-authoring a monograph on the urbanization of Malaya and Indian migrants in Klang (Malaysia).

Dr Md Mizanur Rahman is a Senior Research Fellow, at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, from 2005 to 2007, and a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, NUS, from 2007 to 2010. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, Canada and Graduate School of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. His recent books include Diaspora Engagement and Development in South Asia (co-edited) and Asian Migration Policy: South, Southeast and East Asia (co-edited). His research articles have appeared in leading migration and population journals such as International Migration, Population, Space and Place, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Asia Europe Journal, and Asian Population Studies.

Dr Yabit Alas is the Director of the Continuing Education Centre. He was formerly the Head of the Malay Language and Linguistics, Director

of the Language Centre and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, all at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. His area of expertise is in Comparative Linguistics specifically on the Austronesian Languages. His special interest is the Dusunic Languages spoken in north Borneo. His research is on the origin, dispersal and classification of the Dusunic languages. He is also actively conducting research on Malay languages especially Standard Malay and it relevance to globalisation. He has published a number of articles on the Malay language both in local and regional journals and was the co-editor of the ‘Reflections in Borneo Rivers: Essays in Honour of Professor James T. Collins: Book I' and ‘Reflections in Southeast Asian Seas, Essays in Honour of Professor James T. Collins: Book II.’ He currently leads the newly setup Borneo Studies Network (BSN) at the Institute of Asian Studies, whose interest is to promote and enhance research on Borneo through links with various research centres in Borneo.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: International Migration in Southeast Asia

  • Book Subtitle: Continuities and Discontinuities

  • Editors: Kwen Fee Lian, Md Mizanur Rahman, Yabit bin Alas

  • Series Title: Asia in Transition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-712-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-711-6Published: 04 November 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1312-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-712-3Published: 24 October 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2364-8252

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-8260

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 216

  • Topics: Migration

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