Collins, Francis L. <br/><br/>
Global Asian city :  migration, desire and the politics of encounter in 21st century Seoul / 
Francis L. Collins. 
 - Hoboken, NJ, USA :  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,  2018.  ©2018 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - RGS-IBG Book Series .
 - RGS-IBG book series. .
<br/><br/>Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction; 1.1 Migration and Cities; 1.2 Migration and Modernity in Global City Seoul; 1.3 Desiring Migration and Urban Encounters; 1.4 Approaching Discrepant Lives; Acknowledgements; Endnotes; Chapter Two Desire, Assemblage and Encounter: Beyond Regimes of Migration Management; 2.1 Migration Regimes and the Stratification of Movement in Asia; 2.2 Desiring Migration; 2.3 Urban, National and Transnational Assemblages; 2.4 Politics of Encounter; 2.5 Conclusion. Chapter Three Migration Regimes, Migrant Biographies and Discrepancy3.1 Migration Regime 1.0: National Development and Strategic Ambivalence; 3.2 Migration Regime 2.0: Managed Mobility; 3.2.1 Labour migration; 3.2.2 English teachers; 3.2.3 International students; 3.3 Biographies of Desiring-Migration; 3.3.1 Nadia; 3.3.2 Nonoy; 3.3.3 Jiaying; 3.4 From Desiring-Migration to Discrepant Lives; Acknowledgements; Endnotes; Chapter Four Migration, the Urban Periphery and the Politics of Migrant Lives; 4.1 Assembling the Urban Periphery; 4.2 Migration and Marginalisation. 4.3 Generating a 'Mobile Commons' in the Periphery4.4 Becoming Undocumented and the Subversion of Control; 4.5 Tactics of Recognition; 4.6 Conclusion: Urban Politics of Migration; Acknowledgements; Endnotes; Chapter Five Channelling Desire and Diversity; 5.1 Territorialising Migration in the City; 5.2 Infrastructures of Arrival; 5.3 'Everything is Within the School Campus'; 5.4 Encountering Seoul; 5.4.1 Taking initiative; 5.4.2 Uneven encounters; 5.5 Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter Six Negotiating Privilege and Precarity in Suburban Seoul; 6.1 Privilege and Precarity in Migrant Subjectivities. 6.2 'I teach to live, I don't live to teach' (Charlotte, USA, Female, English teacher)6.3 Turnover and Transience; 6.4 Generating Permanence; 6.4.1 Intimate relationships; 6.4.2 Blogosphere; 6.5 Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter Seven Multicultural Presence and Fractured Futures; 7.1 Another Urban Politics of Multiculturalism; 7.1.1 'It's the same every week like a circle'; 7.1.2 'I don't want to be seen as one of those people'; 7.2 Migration and Becoming; 7.2.1 Forever foreigner; 7.2.2 Alignments with Korean personhood; 7.2.3 Coupling and decoupling futures; 7.3 Conclusion; Acknowledgements. Chapter Eight Conclusion8.1 Global Asian City; 8.2 Desire, for Another Ontology of Migration; 8.3 Migration, Desire and Urban Assemblages; 8.4 Encounter and Futures; 8.5 For Other Approaches to Migration; References; Index; EULA. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781119380030 1119380030 9781119380023 1119380022 9781119380047 1119380049 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>9781119380030  John Wiley 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Municipal engineering--Korea (South)--Seoul.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.<br/>Emigration and immigration.<br/>Municipal engineering.<br/>Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Seoul (Korea)--Social conditions.<br/>Korea (South)--Emigration and immigration.<br/>Korea (South)<br/>Korea (South)--Seoul.