Freedom Found: The Later-life Transnational Migration of Japanese Women to Western Australia and Thailand
In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 239-263
ISSN: 0117-1968
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In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 239-263
ISSN: 0117-1968
In: Asian population studies, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 37-44
ISSN: 1744-1749
In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 1-9
ISSN: 2057-049X
In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 13, Heft 1
ISSN: 0117-1968
In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 1-10
ISSN: 0117-1968
In: Michigan monograph series in Japanese Studies, number 92
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In: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 2
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to retire overseas. Illuminating the ways in which an Asian-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns, the contributors provide important new theoretical insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and innovative methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal complexity of human migration