Asian cities, migrant labor, and contested spaces
By: edited by Tai-Chee Wong and Jonathan Rigg.
Contributors: Wong, Tai-Chee.; Rigg, Jonathan, 1959-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780415564489; 9780203844953
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Asia; Cities and towns -- Growth; Emigration and immigration -- Asia; Migrant labor -- Asia
Table of contents: title: Contestation and exclusion in Asian urban spaces under the impact of globalization : an introduction / Jonathan Rigg and Tai-Chee Wong; title: International and intra-national migrations : human mobility in Pacific Asian cities in the globalization age / Tai-Chee Wong; title: The migrant as a nexus of social relations : an empirical analysis / Him Chung and Kai-chi Leung; title: Post-industrialism and residencing "new immigration" in Singapore / Leo van Grunsven; title: Integrative rhetoric and exclusionary realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia migration policies : discourse on networks and development / Akm Ahsan Ullah; title: Labouring for the child : transnational experiences of Chinese migrant mothers and children in Singapore / Dennis Kwek Beng-Kiat and Christine Tan Sze-Yin; title: Ethnic enclaves in Korean cities : formation, residential patterns and communal features / Dong-Hoon Seol; title: Circular migration and its socioeconomic consequences : the economic marginality among Japanese brazilian migrants in Japan / Hirohisa Takenoshita; title: Migrant labour, residential conflict, and the city : the case of foreign workers' invasion of residential neighbourhoods in Penang, Malaysia / Morshidi Sirat and Suriati Ghazali; title: Migrant labour in the factory zone : contested spaces in the extended Bangkok region / Jonathan Rigg, Suriya Veeravongs, Lalida Veeravongs, and Piyawadee Rohitarachoon; title: Migrant labour under the shadow of the Hukou system : the case of Guangdong / Jianfa Shen; title: Marginalization of rural migrants in China's transitional cities / Li Zhang; title: Living at the margins : migration and the contested arena of waste re-use aquaculture systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Albert M. Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg.