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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Introduction -- 1.1 Migration and Cities -- 1.2 Migration and Modernity in Global City Seoul -- 1.3 Desiring Migration and Urban Encounters -- 1.4 Approaching Discrepant Lives -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Chapter Two Desire, Assemblage and Encounter: Beyond Regimes of Migration Management -- 2.1 Migration Regimes and the Stratification of Movement in Asia -- 2.2 Desiring Migration -- 2.3 Urban, National and Transnational Assemblages -- 2.4 Politics of Encounter -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter Three Migration Regimes, Migrant Biographies and Discrepancy -- 3.1 Migration Regime 1.0: National Development and Strategic Ambivalence -- 3.2 Migration Regime 2.0: Managed Mobility -- 3.2.1 Labour migration -- 3.2.2 English teachers -- 3.2.3 International students -- 3.3 Biographies of Desiring‐Migration -- 3.3.1 Nadia -- 3.3.2 Nonoy -- 3.3.3 Jiaying -- 3.4 From Desiring-Migration to Discrepant Lives -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Chapter Four Migration, the Urban Periphery and the Politics of Migrant Lives -- 4.1 Assembling the Urban Periphery -- 4.2 Migration and Marginalisation -- 4.3 Generating a 'Mobile Commons' in the Periphery -- 4.4 Becoming Undocumented and the Subversion of Control -- 4.5 Tactics of Recognition -- 4.6 Conclusion: Urban Politics of Migration -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Chapter Five Channelling Desire and Diversity -- 5.1 Territorialising Migration in the City -- 5.2 Infrastructures of Arrival -- 5.3 'Everything is Within the School Campus' -- 5.4 Encountering Seoul -- 5.4.1 Taking initiative -- 5.4.2 Uneven encounters -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter Six Negotiating Privilege and Precarity in Suburban Seoul -- 6.1 Privilege and Precarity in Migrant Subjectivities

AbstractIn this article, I address the interplay between migration regimes and migrant subjectivities in stepwise multinational migration through a comparative analysis of biographical interviews with migrants in the healthcare and dairy farm work sectors in New Zealand. In both sectors, migrants' trajectories involve movements from Asia to locations in the Middle East, North Africa or Japan before arrival in New Zealand, and in some cases plans for onward migration. The analysis of these migration patterns and the narratives of migrants, reveal an emergent transnational skills regime that involves connected but uncoordinated systems of skills recognition; negotiating this regime occurs through increased attunement to migration on the part of multinational migrants, as well as adaptation to the expectations of authorities and employers. I conclude the article by suggesting that while multinational migration involves new opportunities for people on the move it also entails greater entanglement in the unequal conditioning of transnational migration.

This paper offers a critical analysis of the narratives of South Korean international students attending universities in the Asian region. It draws in particular on a transnational approach to understanding these mobilities that highlights the imaginaries that generate a desire to be mobile among students, the social and institutional infrastructures that enable mobility, and the implications of student mobility for students' future aspirations and identities. Through this approach, the paper offers a starting point for exploring what is an understudied dimension of international education – the increasing number of international students who are choosing to study in Asia rather than in traditional western destinations. The transnational approach taken in this paper also opens up analytical space for understanding student mobility as a social and geographic process that relies on the creative agency of students and their families, but also social networks of friends, alumni and teachers, and the work of institutional actors in piecing together the possibilities for mobility in the region. In this regard, the paper also draws attention to the imbrication of student flows in the emergence of an increasingly interconnected Asia, one that is articulated in the career pathways of graduating students, their identities and their sense of place in a regional future.