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Wind Over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context
David W. Haines (Ed.)
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Description for Wind Over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context
Paperback. Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. Editor(s): Haines, David W.; Yamanaka, Keiko; Yamashita, Shinji. Num Pages: 284 pages, 12 figures and tables. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FP; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands ... Read more
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785330391
SKU
V9781785330391
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Ref
99-15
About David W. Haines (Ed.)
David W. Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010), has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and is a former president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA). Keiko Yamanaka is a Lecturer in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and International and ... Read more
Reviews for Wind Over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context
In sixteen substantive chapters, this collection presents a dramatic picture of the diversity of Asian mobility...all the studies are worth reading...[They offer] an introductory overview, which should whet the reader's appetite to explore the themes further.
The Journal of Asian Studies The book represents the culmination of a series of interdisciplinary conversations between East Asian and North ... Read more
The Journal of Asian Studies The book represents the culmination of a series of interdisciplinary conversations between East Asian and North ... Read more