International migration in Southeast Asia : continuities and discontinuities /: continuities and discontinuities. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kwen Fee Lian, Md Mizanur Rahman, Yabit bin Alas, editors.
• Editors: Lian, Kwen Fee, 1950-; Rahman, Mizanur, 1972-; Alas, Yabit bin
• Contents: Preface; Contents; 1 Making Sense of Inter and Intraregional Mobility in Southeast Asia; Abstract; References; 2 Weaving Life Across Borders: The Cham Muslim Migrants Traversing Vietnam and Malaysia; Abstract; 2.1 Methodology; 2.2 Conceptual Concerns; 2.3 Labor Brokerage State in Global Capitalist System; Recruitment Mechanisms and Middlemen; 2.4 Sustaining Life in Motion and Gendered Division of Labor; Patterns of Migration; Gendered Division of Labor and Traditions on Trial; 2.5 Risks in the Twenty-first Century Migration; 2.6 Forms of Agency and Empowerment; Network, Trust, Childcare. Keeping up with Traditions with CreativityA Success Story of Hard Work and Creativity; Indebtedness of the Labor Export Policy; Refusing to Pay the Loans to Work in Malaysia; Structural Empowerment: Daily Wage Strike; 2.7 Role of Religion; Religious/Islamic Studies: A Global Experience; Religious Practices in Home and Host Countries; 2.8 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Middle Class Filipinos and the Formation of Diasporic National Communities in the United Arab Emirates; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Filipino Middle Class in the UAE; 3.3 Filipino Associations in the UAE. 3.4 Racial Discrimination and the `Diverting Attention' Strategy3.5 In-Between Temporariness and Settling; 3.6 Seeking Identification in Diasporic National Communities; 3.7 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 4 `Balik Kampung': The Practice of Transborder Retirement Migration in Johor, Malaysia; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Literature Review: Retirement Migration; 4.3 Integration for Retired Migrants; 4.4 The Main Cast; 4.5 How We Do It; 4.6 Motivations for Retirement Migration; 4.7 Networks in Retirement Migration; 4.8 The Locals in Migration; 4.9 To Kenal Everyone. 4.10 Social Capital in the Kampung4.11 Turning Relations into Actions; 4.12 Conclusion; References; 5 Contextualising Geographies of Education-Induced Skilled Migration: How Mobile Malaysians End up in Singapore, London, and Kuala Lumpur; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Contextualising Geographies of Education-Induced Migration; Skilled and Transnational Migration; International Student Migration (ISM) and the Internationalisation of Higher Education; An Integrated Reading; 5.3 Empirical Background: Malaysia; British Colonial Influence; Ethnic-Stratified Education System. 5.4 Bumiputera DifferentiationEducation-Induced Migration; 5.5 Mobile Malaysians' Migration Geographies; JB-Singapore Commuters; MICSS Students; Twinning Programmes; 5.6 Discussion and Conclusion; References; 6 Postcolonial Indian Labour Migration to Malaysia: Trajectories, Trends and Tensions; Abstract; 6.1 Changing Contours of Malaysian Foreign Labour Policy; 6.2 Indian Migration in Historical Perspective; 6.3 Contemporary Indian Migration; Postcolonial Malaysian Economy and Indian Labourers; 6.4 Profile of Indian Migrants to Malaysia; 6.5 Indian Skilled Migration.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)
• Subjects: 304.8/59; Labor mobility -- Southeast Asia; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration; Emigration and immigration; Labor mobility; Southeast Asia -- Emigration and immigration; Southeast Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789812877123; 9812877126
• Related ISBNs: 9789812877116; 9812877118
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 30, 2015).
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