Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces [Hardcover]

This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase of globalization. Cities have become centrally implicated in globalization processes and, therefore, have become objects and sites of intense study.

The contributors to this book reflect on the impact and significance of migration with a particular focus on the contested spaces that are emerging in urban contexts and the economic, social, religious and cultural domains with which they intersect. They also examines the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the cauldron of urban change, from low-skilled domestic migrants who maintain a close engagement with their rural homes, to highly skilled/professional transnational migrants, to legal and illegal international migrants who arrive with the hope of transforming their livelihoods.

Providing a mosaic of insights into the links between migration, marginalization and contestation in Asias urban contexts, Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaceswill be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies, urban studies and human geography.

Introduction: Contemporary Urban Migration and a Theoretical Approach  1. Contestation and Exclusion in Asian Urban Spaces Under the Impact of Globalization: An Introduction  2. International and Intra-National Migrations: Human Mobility in Pacific Asian Cities in the Globalization Age  Part 1: The International Migration Dimension in Asian Cities  3. The Migrant as a Nexus of Social Relations: An Empirical Analysis  4.Post-Industrialism and Residencing New Immigration in Singapore&nl£&