Wind Over Water

A comprehensive treatment of the full range of migrant destinies in East Asia, including a broad range of scholars from both Asia and North America, the volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, perhaps especially its cities: Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries is also a crossing of cultural and social categories and reveals extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to retire overseas. This volume illuminates the ways in which an Asia-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns, new theoretical insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and new methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal complexity of human migration.