1st Edition
The Question of Skill in Cross-Border Labour Mobilities
1. Introduction—Social construction of skill: an analytical approach toward the question of skill in cross-border labour mobilities
Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Michiel Baas
2. Skilled or unskilled? The reconfiguration of migration policies in Japan
Nana Oishi
3. Shifting employabilities: skilling migrants in the nation of emigration
Yasmin Y. Ortiga
4. Becoming global talent? Taiwanese white-collar migrants in Japan
Yen-Fen Tseng
5. Who are the fittest? The question of skills in national employment systems in an age of global labour mobility
Gracia Liu-Farrer and Karen Shire
6. Intermediaries and transnational regimes of skill: nursing skills and competencies in the context of international migration
Margaret Walton-Roberts
7. The work that brokers do: the skills, competences and know-how of intermediaries in the H-2 visa programme
Rubén Hernández-León
8. From cooks to chefs: skilled migrants in a globalising culinary field
James Farrer
Biography
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).
