Handbook on Migration in Asia

Edited by Nana Oishi, Program Head and Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia, and Visiting Research Fellow, Meiji University, Japan, Maruja M.B. Asis, Senior Researcher, Scalabrini Migration Center, Philippines and Binod Khadria, Former Professor of Economics, Education and International Migration, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

‘The Handbook on Migration in Asia provides a comprehensive review of movements of people in one of the most important regions in the world. The editors—Nana Oishi, Maruja Asis, and Binod Khadria—are highly knowledgeable scholars on the movements of people within and from Asia. By using a multidisciplinary approach to migration in the region, they provide a perspective lacking in other handbooks on human mobility. It is a welcome addition for academics throughout the world.’

• Contents1 Introduction: a new migration landscape in Asia 1Nana Oishi, Maruja M. B. Asis and Binod KhadriaPART I  REGIONAL MIGRATION AND GOVERNANCE2 Regional governance on labour migration 14Richa Shivakoti3 Institutional cooperation against human trafficking in Asia 26Guangyu Qiao-Franco4 The governance of refugees in Southeast Asia 42Sébastien Moretti5 Transnational migrant advocacy in Asia: continuities and changes 58Jean Encinas-Franco and Enzo Miguel M. De BorjaPART II  SKILLS AND DIFFERENTIAL POLICIES AND EXPERIENCES INMIGRATION6 Securing skills: Immigration, emigration, and demographic sustainabilityin Japan 74Nana Oishi7 Skilled migration to China 90Tabitha Speelman and Xiao Ma8 Singapore’s foreign talent policy: from open arms to selectiveincorporation 107Shaohua Zhan and Lingli Huang9 Filipino seafaring labour migration and the crewing of the global maritimeindustry’s merchant fleet: a multi-scalar analysis 122Roderick GalamPART III  MIGRATION, FAMILY AND CARE WORK10 Care migration in Taiwan and South Korea 140Yi-Chun Chien11 Family relationships and parental migration: evidence from Southeast Asia 153Hwajin Shin, Xiaochen Zhou, Elspeth Graham and Lucy P. Jordan12 Health professional migration in and from Nepal: popular and growingroutes 168Radha AdhikariPART IV  MIGRANT INCORPORATION13 Myopic multiculturalism: a critical overview of state policy and migrantintegration in South Korea 182Sojin Yu14 Thailand as a destination country: ambivalent integration of migrantworkers and other migrants 197Jerrold W. Huguet, Sakkarin Niyomsilpa and Sureeporn Punpuing15 Migration to Kazakhstan and challenges for integration 214Caress Schenk and Yize HuangPART V  DIASPORA, REMITTANCES AND DEVELOPMENT16 Unpacking the potential of the diaspora for Sri Lanka’s development 230Bilesha Weeraratne17 Migrant remittances to the developing economies of Asia and the Pacific:pre- and post-pandemic scenarios 247Aiko Kikkawa, Raymond Gaspar and Yasuyuki Sawada18 Student migration beyond the traditional hubs in Asia 264Yasmin Y. OrtigaPART VI  DISPLACEMENT, CRISIS AND IRREGULAR MIGRATION19 Refugee protection in East Asia: emerging private sponsorship in Japan 278Naoko Hashimoto20 Afghans in Pakistan: suspended mobility futures 293Katja Mielke21 Homebound journeys and transitions: Filipino migrant workers’ narrativesof return and reintegration 309Karen Anne S. Liao22 What sustains irregular migration in the Gulf countries? 325Nasra M. Shah and Lubna Alkazi23 Queer migration in East Asia: LGBT migrants’ activism and the impactsof Covid-19 342Francisca Yuenki Lai24 Inclusive temporary protection as a response to mixed migration fromMyanmar 354Reiko Harima and Che Singh Kochhar-George25 Climate change-induced migration and adaptations in South Asia: evolvingtrajectories and questions of climate justice 372S. Irudaya Rajan, Arif Nizam and P. Sivakumar26 Negotiating acculturation: psychological well-being and mental health ofinternational migrants in Asia 394Russell Miller, Chunyan Li and Masamine Jimba