Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Herausgeber: Rigg, Jonathan; Wong, Tai-Chee

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase of globalization. Cities have become centrally implicated in globalization processes and, therefore, have become objects and sites of intense study. The contributors to this book reflect on the impact and significance of migration with a particular focus on the contested spaces that are emerging in urban contexts and the economic, social, religious and cultural domains with which they intersect. They also examines the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the cauldron of urban change, from low-skilled domestic migrants who maintain a close engagement with their rural homes, to highly skilled/professional transnational migrants, to legal and illegal international migrants who arrive with the hope of transforming their livelihoods. Providing a mosaic of insights into the links between migration, marginalization and contestation in Asia's urban contexts, Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies, urban studies and human geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780415564489
• ISBN-10: 0415564484
• Artikelnr.: 34560097

Autorenporträt

Tai-Chee Wong is Associate Professor at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Jonathan Rigg is Head of Department and Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Contemporary Urban Migration and a Theoretical Approach 1.
Contestation and Exclusion in Asian Urban Spaces Under the Impact of
Globalization: An Introduction 2. International and Intra-National
Migrations: Human Mobility in Pacific Asian Cities in the Globalization Age
Part 1: The International Migration Dimension in Asian Cities 3. The
Migrant as a Nexus of Social Relations: An Empirical Analysis 4.
Post-Industrialism and Residencing 'New Immigration' in Singapore 5.
Integrative Rhetoric and Exclusionary Realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia
Migration Policies: Discourse on Networks and Development 6. Labouring for
the Child: Transnational Experiences of Chinese Migrant Mothers and
Children in Singapore 7. Ethnic Enclaves in Korean Cities: Formation,
Residential Patterns and Communal Features 8. Circular Migration and its
Socioeconomic Consequences: The Economic Marginality among Japanese
Brazilian Migrants in Japan 9. Migrant Labour, Residential Conflict and the
City: The Case of Foreign Workers' Invasion of Residential Neighbourhoods
in Penang, Malaysia Part 2: The Domestic Migration Dimension in Asian
Cities 10. Migrant Labour in the Factory Zone: Contested Spaces in the
Extended Bangkok Region 11. Migrant Labour under the Shadow of the Hukou
System: The Case of Guangdong 12. Marginalization of Rural Migrants in
China's Transitional Cities 13. Living at the Margins: Migration and the
Contested Arena of Waste Re-Use Aquaculture Systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia