Asian Scientists on the Move

Anju Mary Paul is an international migration scholar with a research focus on emergent migration patterns to, from and within Asia. Her previous books include the award-winning Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) and Local Encounters in a Global City (Ethos Books 2017).

• Part I. Contexts: 1. Introduction; 2. Four Case Studies of Science in Asia; Part II. Circulations: 3. Leaving Home, Heading West; 4. Learning Science in the West; 5. Return to the Future or the Past?; 6. Asian Women Scientists on the Move; Part III. Consequences: 7. New Scientific Research Systems in a Changing Asia; 8. Shifting Scientific Cultures in a Changing Asia; 9. Conclusion.

'The rise of science in Asia is changing science and Asia. In this fascinating study of Asian scientists returning after being educated and working in the West, the dynamics of migrating scientists as agents of change, enabled by governments' investments into the Research Technology and Innovation systems, are untangled. It reveals their efforts at acculturation and the 'gender compromises' that many women scientists have to make, but above all their passion for science and its values.' Helga Nowotny, Professor em.Former President of the European Research Council