Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts /

Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts / / ed. by Lai Ah Eng, Francis Leo Collins, Brenda Yeoh Saw Ai.

This volume makes an important and unique contribution to scholarly understandings of migration and diversity through its focus on Asian contexts. Current scholarship and literature on processes of migration and the consequences of diversity is heavily concentrated on Western contexts and their conc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
HerausgeberIn:
Ah Eng, Lai,
Leo Collins, Francis,
Yeoh Saw Ai, Brenda,
MitwirkendeR:
Asis, Maruja M.B.,
Battistella, Graziano,
Collins, Francis L.,
Eng, Lai Ah,
Goh, Robbie B.H.,
Hsia, Hsiao-Chuan,
Ishii, Kayoko,
Kim, Hui-Jung,
Lai, Ah Eng,
Lorenzana, Jozon A.,
Nagy, Stephen Robert,
Ong, Fred C.M.,
Song, Doyoung,
Yeoh, Brenda S.A.,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • list of contributors
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTs
  • INTRODUCTION. Approaching Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts
  • I. Migration, Multiculturalism and Governance in Asia
  • 1. Multicultural Realities and Membership: States, Migrations and Citizenship in Asia
  • 2. Multicultural Coexistence Policies of Local Governments in the Tokyo Metropolis: A Comparative Examination of Social Integration in Response to Growing Ethnic Diversity
  • 3. The Place of Migrant Workers in Singapore: Between State Multiracialism and Everyday (Un)Cosmopolitanisms
  • 4. Selective State Response and Ethnic Minority Incorporation: The South Korean Case
  • 5. The Tug of War over Multiculturalism: Contestation between Governing and Empowering Immigrants in Taiwan
  • II. Identities
  • 6. Mixed-ethnic Children Raised by Single Thai Mothers in Japan: A Choice of Ethnic Identity
  • 7. Being Indian in Post-colonial Metro Manila: Identities, Boundaries and the Media Practices
  • III. Practices
  • 8. The Kopitiam in Singapore: An Evolving Story about Migration and Cultural Diversity
  • 9. Spatial Process and Cultural Territory of Islamic Food Restaurants in Itaewon, Seoul
  • 10. Competition and Constructedness: Sports, Migration and Diversity in Singapore
  • Index

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