Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia

Preet S. Aulakh is Professor of Strategy and International Business and Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. His recent research focuses on the internationalization of firms from developing economies. Philip F. Kelly is Professor of Geography at York University, Toronto and former Director of the York Centre for Asian Research. He studies the interface between political economy approaches to class and labour markets, and cultural approaches that explore the intersection of class and other bases of identity.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of appendices; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction. Conceptualizing labour and capital mobilities in and out of Asia Preet S. Aulakh and Philip F. Kelly; Part I. From Capital to Labour Mobility: 2. Offshore spaces: multi-scalar bordering processes and the segmented mobilities of capital and labour in Asia Jana M. Kleibert; 3. Japanese multinational companies and the control of overseas investments: expatriates, foreign employees, and Japan's soft power Harald Conrad and Hendrik Meyer-Ohle; 4. Accumulation at the margins? Mineral brokerage and Chinese investments in Philippine mining Alvin A. Camba; 5. Soft power and transnationalism affecting capital and labour mobility: Chinese diaspora in Mexico and Peru Francisco J. Valderrey, Miguel A. Montoya and Mauricio Cervantes; 6. The spatial decoupling and recombination of capital and labour: understanding the new flows across the China-South East Asia borderlands Xiangming Chen, Na Fu, Sam Zhou and Gavin Xu; Part II. From Labour to Capital Mobility: 7. Skills development initiatives and labour migration in a secondary circuit of globalized production: evidence from the garment industry in India Asha Kuzhiparambil; 8. The counter geographies of globalization: women's labour migration along the Nepal-Persian Gulf migratory corridor Hari KC; 9. Migration and developmental capital in a Punjab village Rosy Hastir; 10. The production of nurses for global markets: tracing capital and labour circulation in and out of Asia Margaret Walton-Roberts; 11. The mobility-oligopoly nexus in Philippine property development Kenneth Cardenas; Contributors; Index.

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