David W. Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010), has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and is a former president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) and currently Co-President Elect of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

• List of TablesList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Haines, Shinji Yamashita, and J. S. EadesPart I:  Migrants, States, and CitiesChapter 1.  Human Trade in Colonial VietnamNicolas LainezChapter 2. Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and InstitutionsXiang BiaoChapter 3. Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of ChinaZhang JijiaoChapter 4. Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore’s Changing Demography, Identity, and LandscapeBrenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora LamChapter 5.  A Transnational Community and Its Impact on Local Power Relations in Urban China: The Case of Wangjing “Koreatown” in the Early 2000sKwang-Kyoon YeoChapter 6. Immigration, Policies, and Civil Society in Hamamatsu, Central JapanKeiko YamanakaPart II:  Family, Gender, Lifestyle, and CultureChapter 7. Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodological ImplicationsHy V. LuongChapter 8. Cross-Border Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Chinese Men: The Integration of Otherness and the Impact of Popular RepresentationsCaroline GrillotChapter 9. Achieving and Restoring Masculinity through Homeland Return VisitsHung Cam ThaiChapter 10. Mothers on the Move: Transnational Child-Rearing by Japanese Women Married to Pakistani MigrantsMasako KudoChapter 11. Here, There, and In-between: Lifestyle Migrants from JapanShinji YamashitaChapter 12. Moving and Touring in Time and Place: Korean National History Tourism to Northeast ChinaOkpyo MoonPart III:  Work, Ethnicity, and NationalityChapter 13. In the Shadows and at the Margins: Working in the Korean Clubs and Bars of Osaka’s Minami AreaHaeng-ja Sachiko ChungChapter 14. African Traders in Chungking Mansions, Hong KongGordon MathewsChapter 15. Negotiating “Home” and “Away”: Singaporean Professional Migrants in ChinaBrenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie WillisChapter 16. “Guarded Globalization”: The Politics of Skill Recognition on Migrant Health Care WorkersMika ToyotaConclusionKeiko Yamanaka, David W. Haines, J. S. Eades, Nelson Graburn, Jianxin Wang, and Bernard WongAbout the ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“…this book is a worthy addition to migration research and Asian studies. It is warmly recommended to scholars, advanced graduate students, and anyone else interested in people on the move in Asia and beyond.” · Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute“Wind Over Water is the most up-to-date edited compilation on migration in East Asia, successfully raises a range of theoretical and methodological issues, and shines the spotlight on new fields of inquiry that will surely spur further research.” · International Migration Review“In sixteen substantive chapters, this collection presents a dramatic picture of the diversity of Asian mobility…all the studies are worth reading…[They offer] an introductory overview, which should whet the reader’s appetite to explore the themes further.” · The Journal of Asian Studies“The book represents the culmination of a series of interdisciplinary conversations between East Asian and North American scholars and presents case studies that demonstrate the complexity and fluidity in contemporary migrations in East Asia, including Vietnam and Singapore…[It] will be a useful resource for academics and postgraduate students in migration and social policy.” · Ethnic and Racial Studies“This collection of essays…should be welcomed by a broad audience, such as academics and practitioners interested in migration and ethnicity. Given its timely content and tight writing style, the editors should be commended for their enterprising entry into the important field of international migration studies, and for compiling an insightful and engaging book.” · Pacific Affairs

David W. Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010), has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and is a former president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) and currently Co-President Elect of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

• List of TablesList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Haines, Shinji Yamashita, and J. S. EadesPart I:  Migrants, States, and CitiesChapter 1.  Human Trade in Colonial VietnamNicolas LainezChapter 2. Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and InstitutionsXiang BiaoChapter 3. Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of ChinaZhang JijiaoChapter 4. Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore’s Changing Demography, Identity, and LandscapeBrenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora LamChapter 5.  A Transnational Community and Its Impact on Local Power Relations in Urban China: The Case of Wangjing “Koreatown” in the Early 2000sKwang-Kyoon YeoChapter 6. Immigration, Policies, and Civil Society in Hamamatsu, Central JapanKeiko YamanakaPart II:  Family, Gender, Lifestyle, and CultureChapter 7. Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodological ImplicationsHy V. LuongChapter 8. Cross-Border Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Chinese Men: The Integration of Otherness and the Impact of Popular RepresentationsCaroline GrillotChapter 9. Achieving and Restoring Masculinity through Homeland Return VisitsHung Cam ThaiChapter 10. Mothers on the Move: Transnational Child-Rearing by Japanese Women Married to Pakistani MigrantsMasako KudoChapter 11. Here, There, and In-between: Lifestyle Migrants from JapanShinji YamashitaChapter 12. Moving and Touring in Time and Place: Korean National History Tourism to Northeast ChinaOkpyo MoonPart III:  Work, Ethnicity, and NationalityChapter 13. In the Shadows and at the Margins: Working in the Korean Clubs and Bars of Osaka’s Minami AreaHaeng-ja Sachiko ChungChapter 14. African Traders in Chungking Mansions, Hong KongGordon MathewsChapter 15. Negotiating “Home” and “Away”: Singaporean Professional Migrants in ChinaBrenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie WillisChapter 16. “Guarded Globalization”: The Politics of Skill Recognition on Migrant Health Care WorkersMika ToyotaConclusionKeiko Yamanaka, David W. Haines, J. S. Eades, Nelson Graburn, Jianxin Wang, and Bernard WongAbout the ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“…this book is a worthy addition to migration research and Asian studies. It is warmly recommended to scholars, advanced graduate students, and anyone else interested in people on the move in Asia and beyond.” · Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute“Wind Over Water is the most up-to-date edited compilation on migration in East Asia, successfully raises a range of theoretical and methodological issues, and shines the spotlight on new fields of inquiry that will surely spur further research.” · International Migration Review“In sixteen substantive chapters, this collection presents a dramatic picture of the diversity of Asian mobility…all the studies are worth reading…[They offer] an introductory overview, which should whet the reader’s appetite to explore the themes further.” · The Journal of Asian Studies“The book represents the culmination of a series of interdisciplinary conversations between East Asian and North American scholars and presents case studies that demonstrate the complexity and fluidity in contemporary migrations in East Asia, including Vietnam and Singapore…[It] will be a useful resource for academics and postgraduate students in migration and social policy.” · Ethnic and Racial Studies“This collection of essays…should be welcomed by a broad audience, such as academics and practitioners interested in migration and ethnicity. Given its timely content and tight writing style, the editors should be commended for their enterprising entry into the important field of international migration studies, and for compiling an insightful and engaging book.” · Pacific Affairs

David W. Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010), has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and is a former president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) and currently Co-President Elect of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

• List of TablesList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDavid Haines, Shinji Yamashita, and J. S. EadesPart I:  Migrants, States, and CitiesChapter 1.  Human Trade in Colonial VietnamNicolas LainezChapter 2. Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and InstitutionsXiang BiaoChapter 3. Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of ChinaZhang JijiaoChapter 4. Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore’s Changing Demography, Identity, and LandscapeBrenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora LamChapter 5.  A Transnational Community and Its Impact on Local Power Relations in Urban China: The Case of Wangjing “Koreatown” in the Early 2000sKwang-Kyoon YeoChapter 6. Immigration, Policies, and Civil Society in Hamamatsu, Central JapanKeiko YamanakaPart II:  Family, Gender, Lifestyle, and CultureChapter 7. Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodological ImplicationsHy V. LuongChapter 8. Cross-Border Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Chinese Men: The Integration of Otherness and the Impact of Popular RepresentationsCaroline GrillotChapter 9. Achieving and Restoring Masculinity through Homeland Return VisitsHung Cam ThaiChapter 10. Mothers on the Move: Transnational Child-Rearing by Japanese Women Married to Pakistani MigrantsMasako KudoChapter 11. Here, There, and In-between: Lifestyle Migrants from JapanShinji YamashitaChapter 12. Moving and Touring in Time and Place: Korean National History Tourism to Northeast ChinaOkpyo MoonPart III:  Work, Ethnicity, and NationalityChapter 13. In the Shadows and at the Margins: Working in the Korean Clubs and Bars of Osaka’s Minami AreaHaeng-ja Sachiko ChungChapter 14. African Traders in Chungking Mansions, Hong KongGordon MathewsChapter 15. Negotiating “Home” and “Away”: Singaporean Professional Migrants in ChinaBrenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie WillisChapter 16. “Guarded Globalization”: The Politics of Skill Recognition on Migrant Health Care WorkersMika ToyotaConclusionKeiko Yamanaka, David W. Haines, J. S. Eades, Nelson Graburn, Jianxin Wang, and Bernard WongAbout the ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“…this book is a worthy addition to migration research and Asian studies. It is warmly recommended to scholars, advanced graduate students, and anyone else interested in people on the move in Asia and beyond.” · Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute“Wind Over Water is the most up-to-date edited compilation on migration in East Asia, successfully raises a range of theoretical and methodological issues, and shines the spotlight on new fields of inquiry that will surely spur further research.” · International Migration Review“In sixteen substantive chapters, this collection presents a dramatic picture of the diversity of Asian mobility…all the studies are worth reading…[They offer] an introductory overview, which should whet the reader’s appetite to explore the themes further.” · The Journal of Asian Studies“The book represents the culmination of a series of interdisciplinary conversations between East Asian and North American scholars and presents case studies that demonstrate the complexity and fluidity in contemporary migrations in East Asia, including Vietnam and Singapore…[It] will be a useful resource for academics and postgraduate students in migration and social policy.” · Ethnic and Racial Studies“This collection of essays…should be welcomed by a broad audience, such as academics and practitioners interested in migration and ethnicity. Given its timely content and tight writing style, the editors should be commended for their enterprising entry into the important field of international migration studies, and for compiling an insightful and engaging book.” · Pacific Affairs