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Asian cities, migrant labour and contested spaces / Tai-Chee Wong

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Routledge, 2011.Description: xii, 295 pISBN:
  • 9780415854979
  • 9780415564489 (hbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76095 WON
Contents:
PART I: Contemporary Urban Migration and a Theoretical Approach; 1. Contestation and Exclusion in Asian Urban Spaces Under the Impact of Globalization: An Introduction; 2. International and Intra-National Migrations: Human Mobility in Pacific Asian Cities in the Globalization Age; Part II: The International Migration Dimension in Asian Cities; 3. The Migrant as a Nexus of Social Relations: An Empirical Analysis; 4. Post-Industrialism and Residencing ‘New Immigration’ in Singapore; 5. Integrative Rhetoric and Exclusionary Realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Policies: Discourse on Networks and Development; 6. Labouring for the Child: Transnational Experiences of Chinese Migrant Mothers and Children in Singapore; 7. Ethnic Enclaves in Korean Cities: Formation, Residential Patterns and Communal Features; 8. Circular Migration and its Socioeconomic Consequences: The Economic Marginality among Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan; 9. Migrant Labour, Residential Conflict and the City: The Case of Foreign Workers’ Invasion of Residential Neighbourhoods in Penang, Malaysia; PART III: The Domestic Migration Dimension in Asian Cities; 10. Migrant Labour in the Factory Zone: Contested Spaces in the Extended Bangkok Region; 11. Migrant Labour under the Shadow of the Hukou System: The Case of Guangdong; 12. Marginalization of Rural Migrants in China’s Transitional Cities; 13. Living at the Margins: Migration and the Contested Arena of Waste Re-Use Aquaculture Systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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PART I: Contemporary Urban Migration and a Theoretical Approach;
1. Contestation and Exclusion in Asian Urban Spaces Under the Impact of Globalization: An Introduction;
2. International and Intra-National Migrations: Human Mobility in Pacific Asian Cities in the Globalization Age;
Part II: The International Migration Dimension in Asian Cities;
3. The Migrant as a Nexus of Social Relations: An Empirical Analysis;
4. Post-Industrialism and Residencing ‘New Immigration’ in Singapore;
5. Integrative Rhetoric and Exclusionary Realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Policies: Discourse on Networks and Development;
6. Labouring for the Child: Transnational Experiences of Chinese Migrant Mothers and Children in Singapore;
7. Ethnic Enclaves in Korean Cities: Formation, Residential Patterns and Communal Features;
8. Circular Migration and its Socioeconomic Consequences: The Economic Marginality among Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan;
9. Migrant Labour, Residential Conflict and the City: The Case of Foreign Workers’ Invasion of Residential Neighbourhoods in Penang, Malaysia;
PART III: The Domestic Migration Dimension in Asian Cities;
10. Migrant Labour in the Factory Zone: Contested Spaces in the Extended Bangkok Region;
11. Migrant Labour under the Shadow of the Hukou System: The Case of Guangdong;
12. Marginalization of Rural Migrants in China’s Transitional Cities;
13. Living at the Margins: Migration and the Contested Arena of Waste Re-Use Aquaculture Systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.