Wind Over Water
Migration in an East Asian Context
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 hu…
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Weitere Autoren: Yamanaka, Keiko (Hrsg.) / Yamashita, Shinji (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-85745-741-7
- EAN: 9780857457417
- Produktnummer: 20453813
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'437 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 2
Über den Autor
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.
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