Pubbl/distr/stampa	Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (428 pages)
Disciplina	304.8095
Soggetto topico	Cultural pluralism - Asia Immigrants - Asia
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4438-6569-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458687603321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (520 p.)
Disciplina	304.8095
Collana	Studies in Global Social History Studies in Global Migration History
Soggetto topico	Eurasians - Migrations - History Immigrants - Eurasia - History Globalization - Social aspects - Eurasia - History Social change - Eurasia - History Acculturation - Eurasia - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-04-27136-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- Measuring and Quantifying Cross-Cultural Migrations: An Introduction / Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen -- Catherine’s Dilemma: Resettlement and Power in Russia, 1500's–1914 / Willard Sunderland -- Measuring Migration in Russia: A Perspective of Empire, 1500–1900 / Gijs Kessler -- Mapping Migrations of South Indian Weavers before, during and after the Vijayanagar Period: Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries / Vijaya Ramaswamy -- South Indian Migration, c. 1800–1950 / Sunil S. Amrith -- Migration and Colonial Enterprise in Nineteenth Century Java / Ulbe Bosma -- Toward Cities, Seas, and Jungles: Migration in the Malay Archipelago, c. 1750–1850 / Atsushi Ota -- The Art of (not) Looking Back: Reconsidering Lisu Migrations and “Zomia” / Mireille Mazard -- Migration in an Age of Change: The Migration Effect of Decolonization and Industrialization in Indonesia, c. 1900–2000 / Jelle van Lottum -- A Different Transition: Human Mobility in China, 1600–1900 / Adam McKeown -- Han Chinese Immigrants in Manchuria, 1850–1931 / Yuki Umeno -- From Mao to the Present: Migration in China since the Second World War / Jianfa Shen -- Cross-Cultural Migrations in Japan in a Comparative Perspective, 1600–2000 / Leo Lucassen , Osamu Saito and Ryuto Shimada -- Summary and Concluding Remarks / Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen -- References -- Name Index -- Geographical Index -- Subject Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464091103321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Geneva, Switzerland : , : International Labour Organization, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (204 p.)
Disciplina	304.8095
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	92-2-129452-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; List of tables; Table 1.1 International migrants in 2010 (in millions and per cent); Table 1.2 ASEAN migration stocks, 2010; Table 2.1 Foreign workers - Goals and strategies of receiving countries; Table 2.2 Indicators of the impact of foreign worker programmes; Table 2.3 Logical framework analysis to evaluate foreign worker admissions; Table 2.4 Example of UK Migration Advisory Committee labour market indicators Table 2.5 Impact of improved economic migration screening (1999+) on employment outcomes at six months for select General Skilled Migration birthplace groups, Australia (1993-95 and 1999-2000) (per cent)Table 3.1 Measures to regulate recruitment; Table 3.2 Worker-paid migration costs (in US) - Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait, 2014; Table 3.3 Example of United States H-2A certification process; Table 3.4 Process and impact indicators related to regulating recruitment; Table 4.1 Working conditions: Policy objectives and regulatory measures Table 4.2 Process and impact indicators of working condition regulationsTable 4.3 Monthly wages of Thai workers, registered migrant workers, and unregistered migrant workers in Thailand; Table 4.4 Action on labour and welfare complaints received by Philippines Consulatein Dubai, first three quarters 2008-09; Table 4.5 Process indicator: Status of cases filed in 2008 at POEA as of 15 Oct. 2009; Table 6.1 Malaysia's population and labour force by nationality, 1995-2013, varioussources; Table 6.2 Number of documented foreign workers in Malaysia by nationality and sector, 1990-2013 Table 6.3 Number of expatriates in Malaysia, 2010 & 2014Table 6.4 High-skilled foreign workers by sector, 2004-2014 (per cent); Table 6.5 Members of the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Workers (CCFWII); Table 6.6 Policy instruments and measures to manage foreign workers; Table 6.7 Activities in agriculture permitted to hire foreign workers and regulations guiding the number of workers that can be hired; Table 6.8 Approved sectors for employment of foreign nationals; Table 6.9 List of documents required for new applications for foreign workers; Table 6.10 Schedule of statutory payments Table 6.11 Structure of foreign worker levyTable 6.12 Advantages of the OS system over the current recruitment system; Table 6.13 Remittances by foreign labour, 2000 & 2013 (Ringgit, million); Table 6.14 Monthly minimum wage of foreign workers before and after minimum wage implementation in Peninsular Malaysia; Table 6.15 The macroeconomic impact of the minimum wage policy; List of figures; Figure 2.1 Admission of foreign workers admission: Goals and process indicators; Figure 2.2 Macroeconomic impacts of migrants: United States, 1996; Figure 3.1 Flowchart of the Korean EPS Figure 6.1 Number of documented migrant workers
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465956203321

Edizione	[1st ed. 2024.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (261 pages)
Disciplina	304.8095
Soggetto topico	Ethnology - Asia Culture Emigration and immigration Art - History Oriental literature Asian Culture Diaspora Studies Art History Asian Literature
ISBN	9783031598845
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1: Interdisciplinary Expressions of Home and the Ancestral Homeland in Asian Diaspora -- 2: Bao and Turning Red: Eating Chinese in Bloody Toronto -- 3: Representation of Comfort Women in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life and Christina Park’s The Homes We Build on Ashes -- 4: Belonging Through Faith: Promised Home/Land in Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires -- 5: Un/homing in an Indigenous Land: Chinese and the Indigenous in Ling Zhang’s “Toward the North -- 6: Homeland Films without Homeland: Examining Homeland in Soleen Yusef’s Haus ohne Dach [House Without Roof] -- 7: A Sri Lankan Finding and Defining Home in Australia: Sunil Govinnage’s Writings -- 8: East is East (1997) as a Black Comedy of Asian Diasporic Homemaking in 1970s’ Britain -- 9: Home and Reformed Identities: A Study of Deepa Mehta’s Queer Diasporic Film Fire -- 10: Indian Womanhood as the Site of Home in Lakshmi Persaud’s Sastra -- 11: She Who is Limitless, Without Borders: The Domain of Intimacy in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake -- 12: NowHere and NoWhere: There’s No Place like Home in Beth Yahp’s memoir, Eat First, Talk Later -- 13: Transkoreaning: Decolonizing Adopted Identity Through Artistic Practices and a Return to Home.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910874662503321