Routledge Studies in Asian Diasporas, Migrations and Mobilities
Low-wage Labour Migration Regimes in Asia: Lessons from Across the Governance Spectrum
1st Edition
By Arwen Joyce
June 08, 2026
This book examines how low-wage labour migration policies in seven Asian economies shape the experiences of migrant workers, highlighting two contrasting regulatory approaches that define a governance spectrum. Providing key theoretical insight, this spectrum offers a fresh perspective on which ...
Empowering Subaltern Voices Through Education: The Chakma Diaspora in Australia
1st Edition
By Urmee Chakma
October 09, 2024
Based on a four‐year-long empirical study, this book employs contemporary theories from the Global South to investigate the role of education in the experience of migration and settlement of the Chakma people of Bangladesh in the city of Melbourne, Australia. Exploring the migration opportunities ...
Nurse Migration in Asia: Emerging Patterns and Policy Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Radha Adhikari, Evgeniya Plotnikova
October 09, 2024
Nurse Migration in Asia explores the ever-increasing need for a larger nursing and healthcare workforce in Asia, where countries are undergoing rapid transformation, given economic globalisation and commercial expansion. The book examines some of the major forces that play key roles in the ...
Asian Women, Identity and Migration: Experiences of Transnational Women of Indian Origin/Heritage
1st Edition
Edited
By Nish Belford, Reshmi Lahiri-Roy
January 09, 2023
This book explores the influence which education and migration experiences have on women of Indian origin in Australia and the United Kingdom when (re)negotiating their identities. The intersections of migration and transnationalism are critically examined through multiple theoretical lenses across...
Identity and Experience at the India-Bangladesh Border: The Crisis of Belonging
1st Edition
By Debdatta Chowdhury
August 14, 2020
The effects of the partition of India in 1947 have been more far-reaching and complex than the existing partition narratives of violence and separation reveal. The immediacy of the movement of refugees between India and the newly-formed state of Pakistan overshadowed the actual effect of the ...
Indian Immigrant Women and Work: The American experience
1st Edition
By Ramya Vijaya, Bidisha Biswas
December 12, 2019
In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared. However, this immigration is seen as being overwhelmingly male. Female migrants are depicted either as family migrants following in the path chosen by men, or as victims of ...
Chinese Transnational Migration in the Age of Global Modernity: The Case of Oceania
1st Edition
By Liangni Sally Liu
October 24, 2019
The term ‘circulatory transnational migration’ best describes the unconventional migratory route of many contemporary Chinese migrants – that is an unfinished set of circulatory movements that these migrants engage in between the homeland and various host countries. ‘Return migration’, ‘step ...
Migration, Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand: Highlanders in the City
1st Edition
By Alexander Trupp
August 23, 2018
Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become ...