, migration urbaine, migrant, immigration, mondialisation, conflit urbain, espace urbain, mutation urbaine, Asie, Asia, Wong Tai-Chee, Rigg Jonathan
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Abstract from the publisher :
This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase of globalization. Cities have become centrally implicated in globalization processes and, therefore, have become objects and sites of intense study.
The contributors to this book reflect on the impact and significance of migration with a particular focus on the contested spaces that are emerging in urban contexts and the economic, social, religious and cultural domains with which they intersect. They also examines the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the cauldron of urban change, from low-skilled domestic migrants who maintain a close engagement with their rural homes, to highly skilled/professional transnational migrants, to legal and illegal international migrants who arrive with the hope of transforming their livelihoods.
Providing a mosaic of insights into the links between migration, marginalization and contestation in Asia’s urban contexts, Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies, urban studies and human geography.
Contents :
Introduction: Contemporary Urban Migration and a Theoretical Approach
1. Contestation and Exclusion in Asian Urban Spaces Under the Impact of Globalization: An Introduction - Jonathan Rigg and Tai-Chee Wong
2. International and Intra-national Migrations: Human Mobility in Pacific Asian Cities in the Globalization Age - Tai-Chee Wong
Part I: The International Migration Dimension in Asian Cities
3. The Migrant as a Nexus of Social Relations: An Empirical Analysis - Him Chung and Kai-chi Leung
4. Post-industrialism and Residencing ‘New Immigration’ in Singapore - Leo van Grunsven
5. Integrative Rhetoric and Exclusionary Realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Policies: Discourse on Networks and Development - Akm Ahsan Ullah
6. Labouring for the Child: Transnational Experiences of Chinese Migrant Mothers and Children in Singapore - Dennis Kwek Beng-Kiat and Christine Tan Sze-Yin
7. Ethnic Enclaves in Korean Cities: Formation, Residential Patterns and Communal Features - Dong-Hoon Seol
8. Circular Migration and its Socioeconomic Consequences: The Economic Marginality among Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan - Hirohisa Takenoshita
9. Migrant Labour, Residential Conflict and the City: The Case of Foreign Workers’ Invasion of Residential Neighbourhoods in Penang, Malaysia - Morshidi Sirat and Suriati Ghazali
Part II: The Domestic Migration Dimension in Asian Cities
10. Migrant Labour in the Factory Zone: Contested Spaces in the Extended Bangkok Region - Jonathan Rigg, Suriya Veeravongs, Lalida Veeravongs and Piyawadee Rohitarachoon
11. Migrant Labour under the Shadow of the Hukou System: The Case of Guangdong - Jianfa Shen
12. Marginalization of Rural Migrants in China’s Transitional Cities - Li Zhang
13. Living at the Margins: Migration and the Contested Arena of Waste Re-use Aquaculture Systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Albert M. Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg
Tai-Chee Wong is Associate Professor at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Jonathan Rigg is Head of Department and Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.
