Migration in China and Asia

This book will enlarge our grasp of global migration phenomena, offering insights into the fascinating, at times startling, realities of human migration in Asia. The chapters presented in this volume offer variety in not only theme but in approach to migration in Southeast and East Asia. Particularly welcome for a volume on migration studies, a discipline that has long been dominated by economists, sociologists, and geographers, are the chapters that approach the subject from an anthropological or ethnological perspective. These chapters bring to our attention details of the lives of migrants and their communities that are often lost in studies of migration statistics, the economic aspects of migration, or aspects of urban geography with which we have become more familiar.

Some chapters are more theoretical in nature and herein lie some of the most important reasons for studying migration involving Asian countries: migration studies have, until relatively recently, developed their theoretical insights on the basis of European migration to North America. Asian migration offers new theoretical challenges to migration scholars; its dynamism is such that predictions of what is to come are not for the risk averse. The empirical studies here provide fascinating details of the strategies used by asylum seekers, of marriage migration, of the role of homeland languages in education, of the workings of ethnic entrepreneurs, of the media’s role in sustaining Chinese communities, and on the incentive structures that are helping to shape return flows to China.

For readers who are from Asian countries, this book will illuminate the changes that are taking place in your region as a result of migration. For readers from developed and other societies, it will provide new insights into migration involving this understudied part of the world, an area that supplies the lion’s share of immigrants to developed economies, and the area whose rapid economicdevelopment will soon make it their greatest competition for migrants, especially the highly skilled.

1. Introduction: Zhang Jijiao, Howard Duncan.- I: Migration and its Impacts in China and Asia: 1: “Wind over Water”:Some Anthropological Thoughts on East Asian Migration: David W. Haines.- 2: Flows of People and the Canada-China Relationship in the 21st Century: Kenny Zhang.- 3: International Migration and Economic Development in Northeast China - The Acquisition and Transfer of New Migrant Capital: Outi Luova.- 4: Asylum Seekers in Hong Kong: The Paradoxes of Lives Lived on Hold :Gordon Mathews.- II: International Migration and Marriage: 5: Socio-cultural Consequences of International Marriages in Korea: Emergence of Multiculturalism?: Hyup Choi.- 6: Constructing “Home” Across National Boundaries: A Case of Pakistani-Japanese Marriage: Masako Kudo.- 7: Empowerment or exploitation? How international is international marriage migration?: AKM Ahsan Ullah.- III: Migrant’s Education and Employment: 8: Immigration and Diversity: Exploring Immigrant Parents’ Contributions to Teacher Education: Yan Guo.- 9: Intra-metropolitan Opportunity Structure and Immigrant Self-employment: Cathy Yang Liu.- IV: Chinese Migration in Other Countries.- 10: Chinese Migration to Japan, 1979-2010: Patterns and Policies: Chunfen Shao.- 11: Old and New Chinese Organizations in Suriname (Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat.- 12: The Localisation Strategies of Chinese Immigrants in Belgium – A Typological Study: Li-chuan Liuhuang.- 13: New Chinese Immigrants to New Zealand: a PRC Dimension: Phoebe H. Li.- V: Return Migration: 14: Return Migration in the Age of Globalization: A Critical Review of Theoretical Models: Ding Yueya.- 15: Transnational Migration in the Age of Globalization: Chinese Canadians in Beijing: Shibao Guo.