Immigration Governance in East Asia

Gunter Schubert is Chair Professor of Greater China Studies and Director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.Franziska Plümmer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.Anastasiya Bayok is an Einstein Project researcher at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

• 1. Introduction: Migration Governance in East Asia. Towards an Analytical Framework 2. Keeping Immigration under Control: Development and Characteristics of the East Asian Migration Region PART I: GREATER CHINA 3. Migrant Actions and Government Responses: African Traders in the Pearl River Delta, China 4. Global City Competition and New Hierarchies of Urban Citizenship in China’s Migration Regime 5. ‘Three Evils’ and ‘Three Illegals’: Discourses on ‘Illegal’ Immigration in China 6. Migration Governance at the Sino-Russian Border 7. ‘Foreign Wives’, Eurasian children, and Citizenship Dilemmas in China 8. China and the Refugee Dilemma: A New Asylum Destination or a Challenge to International Norms? 9. The Reform of Chinese Migration Law and the Protection of Migrants’ Rights 10. On a Steep Learning Curve in the Immigration Legislation: Taiwan's Proximity to Sovereignty, Selectivity and Benevolence 11. The Politics of Mainlander Immigration in Postcolonial Hong Kong PART II: JAPAN AND KOREA 12. ‘This is Not an Immigration Policy’: The 2018 Immigration Reform and the Future of Immigration and Citizenship in Japan 13. Brazilian Migrants and Multiculturalism in Japan: Local tabunka kyōsei Policies and their Effect on the Brazilian Diaspora in Hamamatsu 14. Liberation from Blood: The Inclusion of Non-Citizens in the South Korean Polity

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