Broschiertes Buch

Wind Over Water

Migration in an East Asian Context

Herausgeber: Haines, David W.; Yamashita, Shinji; Yamanaka, Keiko

Beschreibung

Investigates how migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially its cities: Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, Singapore Demonstrates how the crossing of geographical boundaries is also a crossing of cultural and social categories Reveals extraordinary variation among migrants' origins and trajectories Illuminates how an Asia-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns and new theoretical insights and methodological approaches of human migration

Autor

David W. Haines is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. He is the author of Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010), has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and is a former president of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) and currently Co-President Elect of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781785330391
• ISBN-10: 178533039X
• Artikelnr.: 44042228