Global Asian City: Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul

Global Asian Cityprovides 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.

• Draws on more than 120 interviews of emigrants to Seoul—including migrant workers from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, English teachers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA, and international students at two elite Korean universities
• Features a comparative account of different migrant populations and the ways in which national migration systems and urban processes create differences between these groups
• Focuses on the causes of international migrant to Seoul, South Korea, and reveals how migration has transformed the city and nation, especially in the last two decades

Keywords:

immigration; global immigration; global migration; human geography studies; migration studies; asian cities; asian urban development; global immigration in asia; the growth of cities; migration and diversity; sociology of urban migration; anthropology of urban migration; development studies; migration and development; international migration and development; immigration management; lives of urban migrants; migration and social division; korea studies; international migration in korea; seoul urban development; seoul urban migration; seoul international migrant groups; lives of international migrants in seoul, south korea; sociology of international migration; labor studies; migrant labor studies; politics of international labor; migration and metropolitan development; the diversity of cities; pan-urban processes