The Question of Skill in Cross-Border Labour Mobilities

Gracia Liu-Farrer is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, and Director of Institute of Asian Migration at Waseda University, Japan. Her research examines immigrants' economic, social and political practices in Japan, and the global mobility of students and professional migrants. Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, and gender and transnational migration in Asia. Michiel Baas is Senior Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle Germany. His research focuses on questions of (transnational) migration; the body, gender and masculinity; and artificial intelligence. His most recent book is titled Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility and the New Middle Class (2020).