Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

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.

• Introduction: 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 1: 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 2: 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

"This collection of essays represents an important publication on Asian migration and ethnicity issues... the editors have organised a good volume that provides additional readings for academics and practitioners interested in Asian immigration and race/ethnicity, perfect for their libraries. The organisation and language of this book make it easy to read. The meticulous care with which the contributors report the methodology and data in the study also makes it possible for other researchers to replicate the findings in the future."- Yixuan Wang, Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; Journal of Contemporary Asia, 42:1