Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces / edited by Tai-Chee Wong and Jonathan Rigg. - London : Routledge, 2011. - xvi, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Routledge contemporary Asia series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contestation and exclusion in Asian urban spaces under the impact of globalization : an introduction / Jonathan Rigg and Tai-Chee Wong -- International and intra-national migrations : human mobility in Pacific Asian cities in the globalization age / Tai-Chee Wong -- The migrant as a nexus of social relations : an empirical analysis / Him Chung and Kai-chi Leung -- Post-industrialism and residencing'new immigration' in Singapore / Leo van Grunsven -- Integrative rhetoric and exclusionary realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia migration policies : discourse on networks and development / Akm Ahsan Ullah -- Labouring for the child : transnational experiences of Chinese migrant mothers and children in Singapore / Dennis Kwek Beng-Kiat and Christine Tan Sze-Yin -- Ethnic enclaves in Korean cities : formation, residential patterns and communal features / Dong-Hoon Seol -- Circular migration and its socioeconomic consequences : the economic marginality among Japanese brazilian migrants in Japan / Hirohisa Takenoshita -- Migrant labour, residential conflict, and the city : the case of foreign workers' invasion of residential neighbourhoods in Penang, Malaysia / Morshidi Sirat and Suriati Ghazali -- Migrant labour in the factory zone : contested spaces in the extended Bangkok region / Jonathan Rigg, Suriya Veeravongs, Lalida Veeravongs, and Piyawadee Rohitarachoon -- Migrant labour under the shadow of the Hukou system : the case of Guangdong / Jianfa Shen -- Marginalization of rural migrants in China's transitional cities / Li Zhang -- Living at the margins : migration and the contested arena of waste re-use aquaculture systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Albert M. Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg.

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Cities and towns--Asia.
Cities and towns--Growth.
Migrant labor--Asia.


Asia--Emigration and immigration.