Education and Migration in an Asian Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Education and Migration in the Asian Context

   • Jing Liu, Francis Peddie

   Pages 1-14

3. Building Educational Community for Left-Behind Children in Rural China: A Case Study of a Small Rural School in Hubei Province

   • Jing Liu

   Pages 15-39

4. Migration and Human Capital: Education and Training Considerations Among International Labor Migrants, Municipality of Rizal, the Philippines

   • Francis Peddie

   Pages 41-66

5. Migration and Settlement of First-Generation Japanese–Peruvians and the Educational Challenges of Second-Generation Nikkei in Japan

   • Jakeline Lagones

   Pages 67-91

6. Going Home to Learn: Educational Journeys of Children in Filipino Transnational Families in Japan

   • Derrace G. McCallum

   Pages 93-113

7. Optimizing the Benefits from Schooling: School-Switching Behavior Among Return Migrants in India

   • Adrienne Lee Atterberry

   Pages 115-136

8. Reconsidering Inclusive Migrant Education: The Case of Burmese Migrant Youth in Thailand

   • On Ni Chan

   Pages 137-152

9. Impact of Armed Conflict on Education in Timor-Leste

   • Yuji Utsumi

   Pages 153-185

10. Conclusion: Linking Education and Migration in the Asian Context

    • Francis Peddie

    Pages 187-190

This edited book explores the complex and multifaceted connections between education and migration in an Asian context from multiple perspectives. It features studies from China, Japan, India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Timor-Leste and covers diverse migration and education experiences. These experiences encompass internal and international migration and forced displacement, as well as questions surrounding education such as school choice, education provision and training as human capital; education and social inclusion; and student performance in a post-conflict context. By covering a wide range of questions and situations, the original scholarship in this book reveals how human development concerns and higher rates of movement within and outside of Asian countries operate on multiple levels in a globalized world.

• Migration and Education
• Migration in Asia
• Displacement
• Human Capital
• Informal Education
• Internal Migration
• International Migration
• Vocational Training

• Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  Francis Peddie

• Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  Jing Liu

Jing Liu is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University, Japan. He received his doctorate in international development from the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan, where he served as an assistant professor from 2013 to 2017. His dissertation, The Development of Inequality in Public School Admission: Public Discourses on Zexiao and Practices in Urban China, received the Best Dissertation Award from the Institute for International Studies in Education of the University of Pittsburgh (USA), and the Asia Pacific Research Prize (Commendation) from the Asia Pacific Forum, Awaji Conference Japan, in 2013. This dissertation was published by Springer under the title Inequality in Public School Admission in Urban China: Discourses, Practices, and New Solutions. His research areas include sociology of education, international and comparative education, and education for sustainability. He began his studies on education in 2007 and has accumulated considerable experience in researching educational development in East Asia and in Southeast Asia. His current research projects include school collaboration for school improvement in China and Japan, small-scale schools and quality education in rural China, education for left-behind children in rural China, and transformation of higher education for sustainability in Asia.



Francis Peddie is an associate professor in the Peace and Governance Program of the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan. He holds a doctorate in history from York University (Canada) in Latin American and Canadian social history and is the author of Young, Well-Educated and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973–2010 (University of Manitoba Press, 2014). His current research focuses on labor migration from a small town in the Philippines, an ongoing examination of the Japanese Technical Intern Trainee Program and the changes taking place in Japanese immigration policy.

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