Return : nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia / Xiang Biao, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Xiang, Biao.

Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

Toyota, Mika.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Return migration--Asia.

Return migration.

Emigration and immigration.

Asia--Emigration and immigration.

Asia.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account deportees, temporary laborers on short-term contracts, highly skilled émigrés, and illegally trafficked migrants, the contributors argue that the figure of the returnee energizes and redefines nationalism in an era of increasingly fluid and indeterminate national sovereignty. They acknowledge the diversity, complexity, and instability of reverse migration, while emphasizing its discursive, policy, and political significance at a moment when tensions between state power and transnational subjects are particularly visible. Taken together, the essays foreground Asia as a useful site for rethinking the intersections of migration, sovereignty, and nationalism. Book jacket.

Contents:

To return or not to return : the changing meaning of mobility among Japanese Brazilians, 1908-2010 / Koji Sasaki

Soldier's home : war, migration, and delayed return in postwar Japan / Mariko Asano Tamanoi

Guiqiao as political subjects in the making of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 / Wang Cangbai

Transnational encapsulation : compulsory return as a labor-migration control in East Asia / Xiang Biao

Cambodians go "home" : forced returns and redisplacement thirty years after the American war in Indochina / Sylvia R. Cowan

Rescue, return, in place : deportees, "victims," and the regulation of Indonesian migration / Johan Lindquist

Return of the global Indian : software professionals and the worlding of Bangalore / Carol Upadhya

Ethnicizing, capitalizing, and nationalizing : South Korea and the returning Korean Chinese / Melody Chia-Wen Lu and Shin Hyunjoon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index.

ISBN:

9780822355311

0822355310

9780822355168

0822355167

OCLC:

830627982