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This book is a collection of work by migration scholars and researchers who are actively conducting fieldwork in Southeast Asia. It presents a wide variety of current research and approaches the field of international labor migration from a regional perspective, acknowledging that the migration process goes beyond local and national boundaries and is embedded in regional and global interconnections. The chapters capture the complexity and richness of the migration phenomenon and experience, which manifests itself in a multitude of ways in a region well known for its diversity. The collection highlights the continuities and discontinuities in the linkages that have been forged through the movement of people between sending and receiving societies. Such linkages are explained by distinguishing between migration that has been sustained by a colonial past and migration that has been precipitated by globalization in the last two decades. The diversity of issues in the region covered by this volume will encourage a rethink of some of the conventional views of migration scholarship and result in a more critical reflection of how we approach migration research.

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Chapter 1: Making Sense of Inter and Intra Regional Mobility in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 2: Weaving life across borders: The Cham Muslims in Vietnam and Malaysia.- Chapter 3: Middle Class Filipinos and the Formation of Diasporic National Communities in the United Arab Emirates.- Chapter 4: "Balik Kampung" : The Practice of Transborder Retirement Migration in Johor, Malaysia.- Chapter 5: Contextualising Geographies of Education-Induced Skilled Migration:
How Mobile Malaysians End Up in Singapore, London and Kuala Lumpur.- Chapter 6: Postcolonial Indian Labour Migration to Malaysia: Trajectories, Trends and Tensions.- Chapter 7: Migration and Employment: A Study of Bangladeshi Male Migrant Workers in Malaysia.- Chapter 8: Interrupted Histories: Arab Migrations to Pre-Colonial Philippines.- Chapter 9: Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH) in Hong Kong: A Study on Premarital Pregnancies.- Chapter 10: Packaging Talent: The Migrant Creative Labour Management of Overseas Filipino Musicians.

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