Library Guides: Global Studies 150Q: Immigration and Multiculturalism in Asia: Background

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Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU Country Reports and Profiles. In-depth analysis of current economic and political events in more than 200 countries.

International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. Scholarly articles on a wide variety of topics of global relevance.

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Covers all topics in human geography and related disciplines.

Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Assembles the most current analytic and historical approaches and interpretations of migration, from prehistory to the present.

Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Covers ethnic groups that have experienced voluntary or forced immigration and the impact and assimilation that the immigrant cultures experience in their adopted cultures.

International Migration Outlook. OECD's annual publication analyzing recent developments in migration movements and policies in its countries.

Routledge Handbook of International Migration Studies. Offers a conceptual approach to the study of international migration, exploring the modes of exit, reception and incorporation which involve varied populations in disparate political, economic, social and cultural contexts.

World Migration Report. Biennial flagship report of the International Organization on Migration. Each report is topical. The site has many other themed publications.

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Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society
As Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging.
The Children of China's Great Migration
In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been left behind by both parents.
Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shared restrictive immigration policies and exclusionary practices toward immigrants until the early 2000s. While Taiwan maintained this trajectory, Japan took incremental steps to expand immigrant services at the grassroots level, and South Korea enacted sweeping immigration reforms.
Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts
This volume makes an important and unique contribution to scholarly understandings of migration and diversity through its focus on Asian contexts.
Multiculturalism in Asia
This volume explores the different ways that ethnic and religious diversity is conceptualized and debated in South and East Asia.

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Global Studies 150Q: Immigration and Multiculturalism in Asia: Background

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