Asian Diaspora

This textbook describes and explains the complex reality of contemporary internal and international migrations in East Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the text offers comprehensive coverage of all forms of migration including labour migration, student migration, marriage migration, displ..

This book explores how far existing networks of overseas Chinese and new flows of migrants act as drivers of economic relations between China and the host countries. It considers migration, trade, flow of capital, and foreign direct investment, includes both skilled and unskilled migrants, and outli..

This book explores how far existing networks of overseas Chinese and new flows of migrants act as drivers of economic relations between China and the host countries. It considers migration, trade, flow of capital, and foreign direct investment, includes both skilled and unskilled migrants, and outli..

Recently, interest in the numbers of skilled immigrants coming from India to the US has soared. However, this immigration is seen as being overwhelmingly male. This book investigates the work trajectories and related assimilation experiences of independent Indian women who have chosen their own migr..

_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Using a creative interdisciplinary approach combining historical, sociological and anthropological approaches to migration and diaspora this book explores the experiences of Bengali Muslim migrants through this period of upheaval and transformation. It draws on over 200 i..

This book examines how transnational ‘talents’ negotiate the world as embodied bearers of culture, ethnicity, class and gender, as much as patrons of economic rationalities and corporate logics. By detailing how their transnational migrations entail navigation through uneven, sometimes challenging t..

This book examines how transnational ‘talents’ negotiate the world as embodied bearers of culture, ethnicity, class and gender, as much as patrons of economic rationalities and corporate logics. By detailing how their transnational migrations entail navigation through uneven, sometimes challenging t..

This book examines the qiaopi from two interconnected perspectives. One views qiaopi from a political and institutional angle, the other from a financial and social angle. Taking an empirical approach, the contributors employ a wide range of primary sources in both Chinese and English...