Global Asian City

FRANCIS L. COLLINS, PhD is Professor of Geography at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. His research focuses on international migration and cities with a particular emphasis on the experiences, mobility patterns, and government regulation of temporary migrants in urban contexts. He is author of numerous articles in a range of international journals and is co-editor of Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts.

'This intriguing piece of work casts migrants as urban actors, desires as social forces, and the city as assemblage. This work helps readers understand how migrants, desire, and the city shape each other through their encounters. It leads us to view the relationship between migration and cities in the East Asian context through the lens of the making and re-making of Seoul.'HaeRan Shin, Department of Geography, Seoul National University'This is one of the first books to bring together two critical developments in 21st century Asia: the emergence of global cities and increasing immigration. Empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated and methodologically innovative, the book reveals how the making of Seoul as a global city is deeply entwined with migration as a process of becoming at the individual level.'Biao Xiang, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford

• Series Editor’s Preface viAcknowledgements vii1 Introduction 12 Desire, Assemblage and Encounter: Beyond Regimes of Migration Management 243 Migration Regimes, Migrant Biographies and Discrepancy 474 Migration, the Urban Periphery and the Politics of Migrant Lives 715 Channelling Desire and Diversity 1016 Negotiating Privilege and Precarity in Suburban Seoul 1287 Multicultural Presence and Fractured Futures 1538 Conclusion 181References 194Index 209