The Age of Asian Migration

Asia has emerged as a vital region for migration, as it produces the most international and cross-border migrants and brings pivotal new insights to migration studies. These two volumes on "The Age of Asian Migration" revisit different forms and histories of migration in Asia and the varied diasporas formed by Asian migrants. They provide both updated data on Asian migration and suggest new ways of looking at global migration overall.

Yuk Wah Chan is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. Her recent publications include Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands: Trade, Tourism and Cultural Politics, and The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora: Revisiting the Boat People. Her research covers Asian borderlands, Asian migration and diaspora, Vietnamese-Chinese Relations, and gender and identity.Heidi Fung is a Research Fellow and Professor at the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research involves the socialisation of emotion, daily disciplinary and moral training practices, child-rearing beliefs across cultures, and the transnational family ties of Vietnamese marriage migrants in Taiwan.Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Her areas of research include the Vietnamese diaspora and identity, and family and relationships. She is also an advisor on the Vietnamese diaspora at the Poland-Asia Research Center.David Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. His most recent books are Wind over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context (co-edited with Keiko Yamanaka and Shinji Yamashita) and Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America.Jonathan H. X. Lee is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. His most recent books are History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots and Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life (edited with Kathleen Nadeau).

The second half of the 20th century witnessed a series of mass migration in Asia due to war, politics and economic turbulence. Combined with recent global economic changes, the result is that Asia is now the world region producing the most international migrants and receiving the second most migrants. Asian migration has thus been of central concern to both academic researchers and policy communities. This book (together with its forthcoming second volume) provides a full span discussion of Asian migration from historical perspectives to updated analyses of current migration flows and diasporas. The book covers six sub-regional areas through focused themes: Northeast Asia: Coping with Diversity in Japan and Korea East Asian Chinese Migration: Taiwan, Hong Kong and China Vietnamese Migration and Diaspora Cambodian, Lao and Hmong Diaspora and Settlement Singapore: New Immigrants and Return Migration South Asian Migration and Diaspora Academics as well as general readers will find this book useful for understanding the specific features of Asian migration, and how these features have evolved since the latter part of the 20th century. In providing an overall reassessment of Asian migration, the book enhances academic discussion of Asian migration, with crucial implications for migration-related policy-making in the region.

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