... . 2010 . Tracing My Children's Lineage . Hong Kong : Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong . Hugo Graeme . 2003 . “Circular Migration: Keeping Development Rolling?” Migration...

... about. Paul Lightfoot and Theodore Fuller report on "Circular Migration in Northeastern Thailand." The subject of circular migration has received more attention in recent years. Lightfoot and Fuller did not find much improvement in economic conditions in the sending areas in spite of modernizing...

... of circular migration flows, a populace of temporary sojourners remains permanently in the host society. A more nuanced analysis is possible through the perspective of structural embeddedness, which examines how stable immigrant populations become firmly embedded in the host society, persisting over a long...

... standards, motivated mainly by a desire to improve their economic circumstances. Although many migrants have a friend or relative in the city to which they move, they do not usually stay with them or receive economic assistance from them. Circular migration is also found to be important; remittances from...

.... Circular migration is also found to be important; remittances from circular migrants often make a substantial contribution to the income of the home village. In both Indonesia and the Philippines, many migrants find work in the "informal sector," although this tendency is more pronounced in the North...

.... These common terms, merantau (circular migration), liar (wild, uncontrolled), and malu (shame)—along with an auxiliary fourth term, belum , “not yet”—help him to make sense of the varied situations he observes. With a fluid writing style that brings alive the subjects of his research, Lindquist...

... of circular migration and diasporic life, of out-migration and return, and further travel to new and old destinations (p. 9). In describing khora as both cycle and transformation, she evokes for me Victor Turner's notion of this cyclical yet transformative aspect of rites of passage that initiate separation...

... in Andhra Pradesh with 35,040 inhabitants). Leclerc studies the evolution of small towns while the strength of rural ties and resultant patterns of circular migration is interestingly analyzed in Landy and Racine's "Urban Growth and Village Roots." But the benefits of rural-urban circulation carry...

..., and an afterword. The first chapter focuses on Xining's Tibetan markets and the circular migrations of people and goods that challenge a rural-urban divide. The second chapter dives into the contentious ground of history and memory, contrasting the official state narratives of a Sino-centric Xining history...

..., Domestic Arrangements, and Family Life, presents three microstudies of human mobility patterns during New Order Indonesia and their impact on family life. The essays by Juliette Koning, Becky Elmhirst, and Janet Rodenburg all contribute signi cantly to a better understanding of how circular migration...

..., over 72 percent of the population still lives outside the cities (occasionally, though, in "villages" like Piduguralla in Andhra Pradesh with 35,040 inhabitants). Leclerc studies the evolution of small towns while the strength of rural ties and resultant patterns of circular migration is interestingly...

... Livelihood in COVID-19 Lockdown,” The Quint , May 12, 2020, https://www.thequint.com/coronavirus/67-workers-lost-livelihood-over-covid-19-lockdown-survey (accessed July 24, 2020). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Authoritarian populism circular migration...

... : Rowman and Littlefield . Luong , Hy V. 2012 . “ Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodological Implications .” In Wind over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context , edited by David Haines , Keiko Yamanaka , and Shinji Yamashita , 107 – 24 . New...

... or pathways and repertoires or does their commonality lie in shaping Asia? Amrith also seeks to distinguish Asian migrations from European (or African) ones. In the first place, historically Asian migrations have been circular and sojourning; as such, these communities retain connections to their home...

... to be, an ancestral homeland. Rather than conceptualizing migration as unidirectional, Jo examines migration as a process that can be circular in nature and complicated by economic, political, historical, and affective factors. The focus on South Korea is timely, given the growing body of empirical work on return...

...," provides the conceptual and factual background, which includes the newly gained insights into the importance of "circular" and temporary migration, the very large differences between different areas, and the role of urban centers of intermediate size in the process of migration. This chapter also provides...

.... PAULINE KOLENDA University of Houston Unsettled Settlers: Migrant Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Calcutta. By ARJAN DE HAAN. Hilversum: Verolren, 1994. 299 pp. / 55. For over a century, Indian jute mills situated in and around Calcutta have been characterized by a pattern of circular rural urban...

... pp. / 55. For over a century, Indian jute mills situated in and around Calcutta have been characterized by a pattern of circular rural urban migration from villages in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh. The book is an extensive study of this pattern of labor migration...

... of Javanese transmigration, commuting, and circular movement, and also the broader context of interisland migration. Essays by Mayling Oey provide solid refutations of the prevailing optimism about the presumed positive impact of Indonesia's GNP gains (oil revenue) and declining fertility on rural farms...

... political support, or claim social prestige. Similarly, Datta documents the steady rise in short-term contract labor, and the net increase in forms and volumes of seasonal, circular, and periodic migration, while real wages of agricultural laborers are increasing over the same period. Long-term labor...