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...Hyun Ok Park Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea . By Hae Yeon Choo . Stanford, Calif .: Stanford University Press , 2016 . xi, 200 pp. ISBN: 9780804791274 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Contested Embrace...

...Jana K. Lipman Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination: Comparisons with Hong Kong and Vietnam . By Kaxton Siu . Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 . xvi, 232 pp. ISBN: 9789813291225 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Kaxton Siu's...

...Jenny Chan Not all of the fifty migrant households that Ling has carefully studied over the past decade are pitifully poor. They are heterogeneous, comprising recycling collectors, street vendors, and micro-entrepreneurs. Rural-to-urban migration can be understood as a strategy to achieve upward...

...Kaxton Siu From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia . By Michele Ford . Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press , 2019 . xii, 195 pp. ISBN: 9781501735141 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020...

...Hea-Jin Park Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections Between Peru and South Korea . By Erica Vogel . Oakland : University of California Press , 2020 . xiii, 168 pp. ISBN: 9780520341173 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 The South...

... of Northern Wei policies concerning migrants and the modes of regulating their mobility (whether entry to the Northern Wei, mobility within the empire, or return to their home state), the state's role in supervising the geographical mobility of migrants, how interstate relationships shaped and were shaped...

...Ralph Russell Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 Sikhs In England: The Development of a Migrant Community . By A. W. Helweg . New York : Oxford University Press , 1979 . xi, 144 pp. Acknowledgments, Photographs, Appendixes, Glossary, Select Bibliography, Index...

...Madeline Y. Hsu Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900–1936 . By Adam McKeown . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2001 . xi , 349 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 194...

...Haesook Kim On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea . By Cheng Sealing . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2010 . 291 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Migration for sex...

... concerns of the post-World War II era. This article reviews the convergence of these two trends by examining activism on behalf of migrant workers in the largest receiving state of migrants in Asia, Malaysia. With approximately 700,000 documented and over one million undocumented migrant workers, Malaysia...

...Robert G. Varady; Katherine Hankins Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People . By Arun Agrawal . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 1999 . xviii, 219 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Vivian Lin Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labor, and International Health Crises . Edited by Anoma Van Der Veere , Florian Schneider , and Catherine Lo . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2022 . 272 pp. ISBN...

...Leela Fernandes Unsettled Settlers: Migrant Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Calcutta . By Arjan de Haan . Hilversum : Verolren , 1994 . 299 pp. f 55. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1125 affairs, rather than national law...

.... In particular, this surrogate labor is manifested in a neocolonial relationship between South Korea and the U.S. throughout the Vietnam War and its continuing period of economic development as well as a quasi-imperial position of South Korea to Vietnam and other countries that send migrant workers to South...

...Wen-Chin Chang Abstract This essay examines the cross-border trade among the migrant Yunnanese between Burma and Thailand during the era of the Burmese socialist regime. It was a period when the Burmese government implemented a nationalized economic system and strictly forbade free movement...

...Caitrin Lynch The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids . By Michele Ruth Gamburd . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2000 . xi, 275 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 1222...

... Press , 2014 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780823256433 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947–1965 . By Haimanti Roy . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9780198081777 (cloth). Copyright...

... (chapters 4 and 7) are familiar stories of migrant agency, documented in other contexts as well as in Korean migration to Manchuria. 2 Part two's rich description of everyday lives of Korean migrants in Ussuri (the Russian side of the Tumen Valley), however, offers a unique scholarly contribution...

...Yiyun Ding International Migrants in China's Global City: The New Shanghailanders . By James Farrer . London : Routledge , 2019 . xii, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780815382638 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 James Farrer's new book focuses on China's...

...Navine Murshid Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in South Asia . By Partha S. Ghosh . Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications , 2016 . xlvii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9789351508540 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 Partha Ghosh's...