Table of Contents:
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;
5. Integrative Rhetoric and Exclusionary Realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Policies: Discourse on Networks and Development;
6. Labouring for the Child: Transnational Experiences of Chinese Migrant Mothers and Children in Singapore;
7. Ethnic Enclaves in Korean Cities: Formation, Residential Patterns and Communal Features;
8. Circular Migration and its Socioeconomic Consequences: The Economic Marginality among Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan;
9. Migrant Labour, Residential Conflict and the City: The Case of Foreign Workers’ Invasion of Residential Neighbourhoods in Penang, Malaysia;
Part 2: The Domestic Migration Dimension in Asian Cities;
10. Migrant Labour in the Factory Zone: Contested Spaces in the Extended Bangkok Region;
11. Migrant Labour under the Shadow of the Hukou System: The Case of Guangdong;
12. Marginalization of Rural Migrants in China’s Transitional Cities;
13. Living at the Margins: Migration and the Contested Arena of Waste Re-Use Aquaculture Systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.