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Global Asian City

Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvFrancis L. Collins

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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 Seoul—including 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

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-29
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRGS-IBG Book Series
Antal sidor224
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781119380009

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FRANCIS L. COLLINS, PhD is 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.

Series Editor’s Preface viAcknowledgements vii1 Introduction 12 Desire, Assemblage and Encounter: Beyond Regimes of Migration Management 243 Migration Regimes, Migrant Biographies and Discrepancy 474 Migration, the Urban Periphery and the Politics of Migrant Lives 715 Channelling Desire and Diversity 1016 Negotiating Privilege and Precarity in Suburban Seoul 1287 Multicultural Presence and Fractured Futures 1538 Conclusion 181References 194Index 209

'This intriguing piece of work casts migrants as urban actors, desires as social forces, and the city as assemblage. This work helps readers understand how migrants, desire, and the city shape each other through their encounters. It leads us to view the relationship between migration and cities in the East Asian context through the lens of the making and re-making of Seoul.'HaeRan Shin, Department of Geography, Seoul National University'This is one of the first books to bring together two critical developments in 21st century Asia: the emergence of global cities and increasing immigration. Empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated and methodologically innovative, the book reveals how the making of Seoul as a global city is deeply entwined with migration as a process of becoming at the individual level.'Biao Xiang, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford