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Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia by Biao Xiang
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around... -
Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia by Biao Xiang 9780822355168
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £82.08Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around... -
Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World Biao Xiang 9789811949524
Booksplease Price: £46.28Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book,... -
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Global "Body Shopping": An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry by Biao Xiang
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible... -
Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations by Gracia Liu-Farrer
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Housing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility. Offering a wide-ranging overview of the field of Asian... -
Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World by Xiang Biao
Booksplease Price: £36.44Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book,... -
Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China by Carlos Rojas 9780822361770
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises... -
Political Economy and Information Capitalism in India: Digital Divide, Development Divide and Equity by Govindan Parayil 9781403992444
Booksplease Price: £90.56In this theoretically and empirically engaging volume, the contributors demonstrate that despite the dynamism of India's software industry and the rhetorical flourishes of industry leaders, at... -
Global Asian City: Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul Francis L. Collins 9781119380009
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Global 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... -
Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China by Carlos Rojas
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises... -
Gender and Employment in Rural China Jing Song 9780367141875
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63With China's rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, Song... -
Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China by DR. ENG Lena Kaufmann
RRP: £122.00Booksplease Price: £118.97How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice... -
Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China Lena Kaufmann 9781041185673
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice... -
Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia Anju Mary Paul 9781108970082
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.91The growing scientific research output from Asia has been making headlines since the start of the twenty-first century. But behind this science story, there is a migration story. The elite scientists... -
International Migrants in China's Global City: The New Shanghailanders by James Farrer 9780367662899
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly 900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international migrants remain... -
Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia by Anju Mary Paul 9781108845618
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93The growing scientific research output from Asia has been making headlines since the start of the twenty-first century. But behind this science story, there is a migration story. The elite scientists... -
Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa: Abroad at any cost by Maybritt Jill Alpes
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Do young West Africans want to go abroad at any cost because they receive too little or erroneous information? Why do they and their families risk large sums of money with migration brokers? How do... -
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region by Pal Nyiri
Booksplease Price: £113.38This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China's rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists,... -
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region by Pal Nyiri 9780295999302
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.11This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China's rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists,... -
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion by Lisa Rofel
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism... -
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion by Lisa Rofel 9781478000297
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism... -
The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China by Cora Lingling Xu 9798855801910
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.05Reveals the role of time in reproducing inequalities as students navigate rural-to-urban, cross-border, and transnational higher education.Can a student inherit time? What difference does time make... -
Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare across National Borders by Peggy Levitt
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.40Argues that a new set of transnational social welfare arrangements has emerged that challenge traditional social welfare provision based on national citizenship and residence. The idea that... -
Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare across National Borders by Peggy Levitt 9780197666821
Booksplease Price: £91.88Argues that a new set of transnational social welfare arrangements has emerged that challenge traditional social welfare provision based on national citizenship and residence. The idea that...