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Summary:

Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged or demanded the return of emigrants. In this anthology, cases of return migration in Asia provide the ground for rethinking relations between nation-states and transnational mobility.

Table of 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.

Contributors:

Xiang, Biao , editor

Yeoh, Brenda S. A. , editor

Toyota, Mika , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Return (Durham : Duke University Press, 2013 — ISBN 9780822355168; ISBN 9780822355311; LCCN 2013018964; OCLC Number 830627982)

Subjects:

Return migration — Asia

Asia — Emigration and immigration

Emigration and immigration

Return migration

Asia

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JV8490 .R48 2013eb

ISBNs:

9780822377474 (electronic bk.)
0822377470 (electronic bk.)
9780822355168 (electronic bk.)
0822355167 (electronic bk.)
9780822355311 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
0822355310 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781299870345 (online)
1299870341
9781478090984
1478090987

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013018964

OCLC Numbers:

858031848