Global Asian city : migration, desire and the politics of encounter in 21st century Seoul / Francis L. Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Francis L. (Francis Leo), author.

Series:

RGS-IBG book series.

RGS-IBG book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal engineering--Korea (South)--Seoul.

Municipal engineering.

Seoul (Korea)--Social conditions.

Seoul (Korea).

Korea (South)--Emigration and immigration.

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley Blackwell, 2018.

Summary:

Global Asian City provides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities. * Draws on more than 120 interviews of emigrants to Seoul-including migrant workers from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, English teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA, and international students at two elite Korean universities * Features a comparative account of different migrant populations and the ways in which national migration systems and urban processes create differences between these groups * Focuses on the causes of international migrant to Seoul, South Korea, and reveals how migration has transformed the city and nation, especially in the last two decades

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One Introduction

1.1 Migration and Cities

1.2 Migration and Modernity in Global City Seoul

1.3 Desiring Migration and Urban Encounters

1.4 Approaching Discrepant Lives

Endnotes

Chapter Two Desire, Assemblage and Encounter: Beyond Regimes of Migration Management

2.1 Migration Regimes and the Stratification of Movement in Asia

2.2 Desiring Migration

2.3 Urban, National and Transnational Assemblages

2.4 Politics of Encounter

2.5 Conclusion

Chapter Three Migration Regimes, Migrant Biographies and Discrepancy

3.1 Migration Regime 1.0: National Development and Strategic Ambivalence

3.2 Migration Regime 2.0: Managed Mobility

3.2.1 Labour migration

3.2.2 English teachers

3.2.3 International students

3.3 Biographies of Desiring‐Migration

3.3.1 Nadia

3.3.2 Nonoy

3.3.3 Jiaying

3.4 From Desiring-Migration to Discrepant Lives

Chapter Four Migration, the Urban Periphery and the Politics of Migrant Lives

4.1 Assembling the Urban Periphery

4.2 Migration and Marginalisation

4.3 Generating a 'Mobile Commons' in the Periphery

4.4 Becoming Undocumented and the Subversion of Control

4.5 Tactics of Recognition

4.6 Conclusion: Urban Politics of Migration

Chapter Five Channelling Desire and Diversity

5.1 Territorialising Migration in the City

5.2 Infrastructures of Arrival

5.3 'Everything is Within the School Campus'

5.4 Encountering Seoul

5.4.1 Taking initiative

5.4.2 Uneven encounters

5.5 Conclusion

Chapter Six Negotiating Privilege and Precarity in Suburban Seoul

6.1 Privilege and Precarity in Migrant Subjectivities.

6.2 'I teach to live, I don't live to teach' (Charlotte, USA, Female, English teacher)

6.3 Turnover and Transience

6.4 Generating Permanence

6.4.1 Intimate relationships

6.4.2 Blogosphere

6.5 Conclusion

Chapter Seven Multicultural Presence and Fractured Futures

7.1 Another Urban Politics of Multiculturalism

7.1.1 'It's the same every week like a circle'

7.1.2 'I don't want to be seen as one of those people'

7.2 Migration and Becoming

7.2.1 Forever foreigner

7.2.2 Alignments with Korean personhood

7.2.3 Coupling and decoupling futures

7.3 Conclusion

Chapter Eight Conclusion

8.1 Global Asian City

8.2 Desire, for Another Ontology of Migration

8.3 Migration, Desire and Urban Assemblages

8.4 Encounter and Futures

8.5 For Other Approaches to Migration

References

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119380047

1119380049

9781119380023

1119380022

9781119380030

1119380030

OCLC:

1013988347