International Labour Migration in the Middle East and Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: Migrants in the Middle East and Asia

   • Kwen Fee Lian, Naomi Hosoda, Masako Ishii

   Pages 1-11

3. Ethnocracy in the Arab Gulf States: Oil Rent, Migrants and Authoritarian Regimes

   • Masaki Matsuo

   Pages 13-35

4. Empowerment of Migrant Domestic Workers: Muslim Filipinas in the United Arab Emirates

   • Masako Ishii

   Pages 37-54

5. The Complexities of Social Inclusion and Exclusion Among Intermarried Filipino Migrant Workers in the United Arab Emirates

   • Akiko Watanabe

   Pages 55-73

6. ‘This is our home, but we cannot stay here forever’: Second-Generation Asian Youths in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates

   • Naomi Hosoda, Kyoko Matsukawa

   Pages 75-95

7. Promoting Diversity, Branding the State: Migrant-Friendly Discourses in the United Arab Emirates

   • Koji Horinuki

   Pages 97-114

8. Brunei Darussalam: Female Labour Force Participation and Foreign Domestic Workers

   • Wako Asato

   Pages 115-141

9. A Space of Emancipation or a Space of Insecurity? Gendered Dimensions in Nepal Town, South Korea

   • Seonyoung Seo

   Pages 143-155

10. International Migration and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Japan, South Korea and Singapore

    • Kwen Fee Lian

    Pages 157-175

11. Back Matter

    Pages 177-204

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The discourse on migration outcomes in the West has largely been dominated by issues of integration, but it is more relevant to view immigration in non-Western societies in relation to practices of exclusion and inclusion. Exclusion refers to a situation in which individuals and groups are usually denied access to the goods, services, activities and resources associated with citizenship. However, this approach has been criticised in relation to gender issues, which are very relevant to the situation of migrants. The authors in this volume address this criticism. Furthermore, when framed within a North–South discourse, it may be potentially ethnocentric to assume that the experience of exclusion is cross-culturally uniform. Indeed, work on migration issues has invariably been conducted within such a discourse. The contributors go beyond this binary discourse of ‘exclusion versus inclusion’ which has dominated migration research. They examine the situation of migrants in the MiddleEast and Asia as one that encompasses both exclusion and inclusion, addressing related concepts of empowerment, ethnocracy, the feminisation of migration and gendered geographies of power, liberal constraint and multiculturalism, individual agency, migrant-friendly discourses, spaces of emancipation and spaces of insecurity. The book highlights current research in the Arab Gulf states, and examines multiculturalism in Asia more broadly. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in international labour migration studies in the Middle East and Asia. 

• International Labour Migration in the Middle East and Asia
• International Migration
• Labour migration
• Multiculturalism
• Domestic migrant workers
• Female migration
• Filipino migrant workers
• Migrant inclusion exclusion
• Migrant education
• Ethnocracy in the Arab Gulf States
• East Asia
• Empowerment of Migrant Domestic Workers
• Second Generation Asian Youth in Kuwait and the UAE
• Migrant-friendly Discourse in the UAE
• Muslim Filipinas in the UAE
• Open access

   

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

  Kwen Fee Lian

• School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki City, Japan

  Naomi Hosoda

• College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

  Masako Ishii

Lian Kwen Fee is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. His research interests include race and ethnicity, migration and multiculturalism. His two most recent books are Multiculturalism, migration, and the politics of identity in Singapore and International migration in Southeast Asia (eds).  


Naomi Hosoda is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Her main research interest is anthropological studies on Filipino migration, with a focus on cultural normality, family, transnational community, education, and citizenship in Asia and the Middle East. 


Masako Ishii is a professor at the College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Japan. Her main research interest examines area studies of Muslim society in the Philippines focusing on gender, migration, armed conflict and the peace process. 

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