Transnational Migration and Asia

Michiel Baas is a research fellow with the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

- "This edited volume's chapters are well crafted essays that provide a rich body of ethnographic and historical data." - Josephine Smart, Pacific Affairs

• 1. Baas, Michiel: Introduction. Revisiting the Myth of Return in an Age of Transnationalism. Emotions, Rationale and In-between Spaces. 2. LeBaron van Baeyer, Sara: Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia: Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multi-Generational Meanings of Return. 3. Baas, Michiel: The Freedom to Stay & Leave: Indian Overseas Students' Paradoxical Relationship with Australian 'Permanent' Residency. 4. Bhatt, Amy. Reproducing Intimacies and Transnational Family Formations among highly skilled migrants from India. 5. Nititham, Diane: 'It's Still Home Home': Notions of the Homeland for Filipina Dependent Students in Ireland. 6. Nguyen, Cindy: Finding and Defining Social Purpose: Representations of Vietnamese Student Migration to the Colonial Metrople, 1910-1933 7. Kaibara, Helen: Looking Back to Move Forward: Japanese Elites and the Prominence of Home in Discourses of Settlement and Cultural Assimilation in the United States, 1890-1924. 8. Koh, Kris: The Lost Generation - Return of Second Generation Vi?t Ki?u to Sài Gòn. 9. Sahoo, Ajaya K. Migration, Return and Coping Patterns: A Study of Gulf Returnees in Andhra Pradesh, India. 10. Anwar, Nausheen. The Bengali can return to his desh but the Burmi can't because he has no desh: Dilemmas of Desire and Belonging amongst the Burmese-Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants in Karachi, Pakistan.