Beschreibung
Global Asian City provides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities.
Draws on more than 120 interviews of emigrants to Seoulincluding migrant workers from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, English teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA, and international students at two elite Korean universitiesFeatures a comparative account of different migrant populations and the ways in which national migration systems and urban processes create differences between these groupsFocuses on the causes of international migrant to Seoul, South Korea, and reveals how migration has transformed the city and nation, especially in the last two decades
Autorenportrait
FRANCIS L. COLLINS, PhDis Professor of Geography at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. His research focuses on international migration and cities with a particular emphasis on the experiences, mobility patterns, and government regulation of temporary migrants in urban contexts. He is author of numerous articles in a range of international journals and is co-editor of Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts.
Inhalt
Series Editors Preface vi
Acknowledgements vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Desire, Assemblage and Encounter: Beyond Regimes of Migration Management 24
3 Migration Regimes, Migrant Biographies and Discrepancy 47
4 Migration, the Urban Periphery and the Politics of Migrant Lives 71
5 Channelling Desire and Diversity 101
6 Negotiating Privilege and Precarity in Suburban Seoul 128
7 Multicultural Presence and Fractured Futures 153
8 Conclusion 181
References 194
Index 209
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