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Global Asian City: Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul
Contributor(s): Collins, Francis L. (Author)
ISBN: 1119380006     ISBN-13: 9781119380009
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geography
Dewey: 306.095
LCCN: 2017057649
Series: Rgs-Ibg Book
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages
 
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Global Asian City provides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities.

  • Draws on more than 120 interviews of emigrants to Seoul--including migrant workers from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, English teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA, and international students at two elite Korean universities
  • Features a comparative account of different migrant populations and the ways in which national migration systems and urban processes create differences between these groups
  • Focuses on the causes of international migrant to Seoul, South Korea, and reveals how migration has transformed the city and nation, especially in the last two decades