Overview
- Analyses the contradictions between the absence and presence of discussions of race and racism in China and Japan
- The open access book bridges the gap between race and migration studies
- Reflects on similarities and differences between racialization processes in Western countries and Asia
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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This open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western world impact racial knowledge formation in Asian societies? To what extent do they challenge, perpetuate, and reshape unequal power relations based on the intersection of race, gender, class, nationality, citizenship, and migration status in Asia? How are dominant Western racial categories such as race, whiteness, and blackness redefined and reconstructed in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, when transnational mobility became both heavily restricted and stigmatized ? The book is divided into three parts: Race, Language and Migration status, Covid-19 and the Dynamics of Racialization, Gender and Interracial Encounters. This book positions itself in the nexus of race, migration and pandemic research and will make a significant contribution to critical race studies, whiteness studies, globalization, multiculturalism, and social transformation in Asia. This book is aimed at students and scholars in race and migration studies in Asia and beyond. This is an open access book.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Race, Language, and Migration Status
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COVID-19 and the Dynamics of Racialization
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Gender and Interracial Encounters
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shanshan Lan is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her research interests include urban anthropology, migration and mobility regimes, comparative racial formations in Asia and Euro-America, transnational student mobility, global cities, African diaspora in China, Chinese diaspora in the United States, and class and social transformations in Chinese society. Lan is the Principal Investigator of the ERC project “The reconfiguration of whiteness in China: Privileges, precariousness, and racialized performances” (CHINAWHITE, 2019-2024). She is the author of two books: Diaspora and Class Consciousness: Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago (2012), and Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging (2017). She also published articles in American Anthropologist, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Anthropological Quarterly, International Migration, and other academic journals.
Miloš Debnár is Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Studies, Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Kyoto University in 2014 and his main research interest is sociology of European migration to Japan. He has written on migration patterns, social integration and the role of race and whiteness in the integration. His current projects are a comparative study analysing choices of staying and leaving by European migrants to Japan, and a collaborative project with the University of Vienna on study abroad in East Asia by students at Central European universities. He is the author of Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism: Europeans in Japan(2016) and his recent publications include a paper co-authored with Špela Drnovšek Zorko Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK (CMS, 2021, 9:30) and a chapter Privileged, Highly Skilled and Unproblematic? White Europeans in Japan as Migrants published in Expatriation and Migration: Two Faces of the Same Coin (ed. Sylvain Beck, 2023).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration, Transnational Flows, and the Contested Meanings of Race in Asia
Editors: Shanshan Lan, Miloš Debnár
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81545-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-81544-7Published: 07 March 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-81547-8Due: 21 March 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-81545-4Published: 06 March 2025
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 212
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Public Policy, Asian Politics
Keywords
- Open Access
- Migration and transnational flows
- Researching race and migration in a transnational context
- Ukrainian refugees in China and Japan
- Black Woman in Japan
- Race, gender, and intersectionality
- Racialization processes in Western countries and in Asia
- The nexus of race, migration and pandemic research
- White Western migrants’ experiences in China
- Racial knowledge formation in Asian societies
- Covid-19 and the racialization of migrants
- Transnational circulation of racial knowledge
- White supremacy and anti-black racism
- Private English schools in China
- Race and the ELT (English language Teaching) industry
- White racial formation in a transnational pandemic context
- The shifting perceptions of Russia-Ukraine war