TY - BOOK AU - Collins,Francis L. TI - Global Asian city: migration, desire and the politics of encounter in 21st century Seoul T2 - RGS-IBG Book Series SN - 9781119380030 PY - 2018/// CY - Hoboken, NJ, USA PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - Municipal engineering KW - Korea (South) KW - Seoul KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Cultural Policy KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - Popular Culture KW - Emigration and immigration KW - fast KW - Social conditions KW - Seoul (Korea) N1 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119380030 ER -