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Immigration Governance in East Asia Norm Diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship

340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyzes immigration policies in East Asia in the context of contemporary global migration flows and mobility. To assess how global norms of migration have impacted the East Asian migration region and explore regional migration trends, the book contains 13 case studies which investigate the regulation of immigration in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Three analytical... Read more

1. Introduction: Migration Governance in East Asia. Towards an Analytical Framework

Gunter Schubert, Franziska Plümmer and Anastasiya Bayok

2. Keeping Immigration under Control: Development and Characteristics of the East Asian Migration Region

David Chiavacci

PART I: GREATER CHINA

3. Migrant Actions and Government Responses: African Traders in the Pearl River Delta, China

Bettina Gransow

4. Global City Competition and New Hierarchies of Urban Citizenship in China’s Migration Regime

Elena Meyer-Clement & Xiang Wang

5. ‘Three Evils’ and ‘Three Illegals’: Discourses on ‘Illegal’ Immigration in China

Franziska Plümmer

6. Migration Governance at the Sino-Russian Border

Anastasiya Bayok

7. ‘Foreign Wives’, Eurasian children, and Citizenship Dilemmas in China

Elena Barabantseva

8. China and the Refugee Dilemma: A New Asylum Destination or a Challenge to International Norms?

Elena Soboleva

9. The Reform of Chinese Migration Law and the Protection of Migrants’ Rights

Börn Ahl & Pilar-Paz Czoske

10. On a Steep Learning Curve in the Immigration Legislation: Taiwan's Proximity to Sovereignty, Selectivity and Benevolence

Isabelle Cheng

11. The Politics of Mainlander Immigration in Postcolonial Hong Kong

Gunter Schubert

PART II: JAPAN AND KOREA

12. ‘This is Not an Immigration Policy’: The 2018 Immigration Reform and the Future of Immigration and Citizenship in Japan

Michael Strausz

13. Brazilian Migrants and Multiculturalism in Japan: Local tabunka kyōsei Policies and their Effect on the Brazilian Diaspora in Hamamatsu

Chaline Mondwurf

14. Liberation from Blood: The Inclusion of Non-Citizens in the South Korean Polity

Chang So Young and Luicy Pedroza

Biography

Gunter Schubert is Chair Professor of Greater China Studies and Director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany.

Franziska Plümmer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Anastasiya Bayok is an Einstein Project researcher at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.