Migration: the Asian Experience

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Migration — The Asian Experience

   • Judith M. Brown, Rosemary Foot

   Pages 1-11

3. The Chinese as Overseas Migrants

   • Edgar Wickberg

   Pages 12-37

4. Three Phases of South Asian Emigration

   • Ceri Peach

   Pages 38-55

5. The Modern Zoroastrian Diaspora

   • John R. Hinnells

   Pages 56-82

6. The Indian Diaspora in the United States

   • Roger Daniels

   Pages 83-103

7. Renewing an Industrial Past: British Pakistani Entrepreneurship in Manchester

   • Pnina Werbner

   Pages 104-130

8. Why Move? Regional and Long Distance Migrations of Gujarati Jains

   • Marcus Banks

   Pages 131-148

9. The Movement of Indian Muslims to West Pakistan after 1947: Partition-Related Migration and its Consequences for the Pakistani Province of Sind

   • Sarah Ansari

   Pages 149-168

10. Illegal Foreign Migrant Workers in Japan: Change and Challenge in Japanese Society

    • Yoko Sellek

    Pages 169-201

11. Relocation in Vietnam and Outmigration: The Ideological and Economic Context

    • Linda Hitchcox

    Pages 202-220

12. The Movement of Population to the West of China: Tibet and Qinghai

    • Graham E. Clarke

    Pages 221-257

13. Back Matter

    Pages 258-262

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This edited collection of essays describes the main broad streams of Asian migration and their wide geographical spread, both in terms of migrants' origins and their destinations. Evidence comes from several of the countries of South and East Asia. It shows migrants moving within their own countries; abroad but still within Asia; and overseas particularly to Britain and North America. The essays address both the subjective and objective causes of migration and some of the consequences, for the individual, the family and the migrant community both as an entity and in relation to the host society.

• migrants
• migration
• population
• society

• University of Oxford, UK

  Judith M. Brown, Rosemary Foot

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