Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts

List of Contributors

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Maruja M.B. ASIS is Director of Research and Publications at the Scalabrini Migration Center. She is a sociologist who has been working on migration issues in Asia. Her current research deals with the impact of government regulations on the protection of Filipino domestic workers, employment and migration of the Filipino youth, health and well-being of migrants’ children in the Philippines (part of a four-country study in Southeast Asia), and capacity-building of migrants’ associations and Philippine government institutions as development partners. She is Co-editor of the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal and Asian Migration News. She has published in journals/books and has participated in international conferences and expert group meetings. Graziano BATTISTELLA is the director of the Scalabrini Migration Center, where he has returned after seven years as president of the Scalabrini International Migration Institute in Rome. He founded the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, of which he is co-editor. His research interests are in the area of migration policies, the human rights of migrants, and ethical issues related to migration. He edited recently in Italian a dictionary on migration, titled Migrazioni: Dizionario Socio-Pastorale. Francis L. COLLINS is a Lecturer in Urban Geography at the School of Environment, University of Auckland. Before joining the University of Auckland Francis held positions in the Asia Research Institute and Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore. His primary research interest is the intersection between migratory processes and experiences and the changing form of cities with a particular emphasis on the lives of temporary migrants. Currently, Francis’ research focuses on the mobility of international students within Asia and the changing institutional structure of universities in the region; temporary migrants and emerging experiences of diversity in Seoul, South Korea; and questions of livability in cities within Asia. Francis has published on these topics in international journals within geography, migration and urban studies including recent publications in Geoforum, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography. Robbie B.H. GOH is in the department of English Language and Literature, NUS, and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He works on Christianity in Asia, diasporic cultures and literatures, popular culture and nineteenth-century literature. Recent publications include Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (2005); Christianity in Southeast Asia (2005); Christian Ministry and the Asian Nation: the Metropolitan YMCA in Singapore (2006); and articles in Crossroads, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Social Semiotics, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and in other journals and edited volumes. HSIA Hsiao-Chuan is Professor and Director at the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies, Shih Hsin University, Taipei. As the first scholar studying marriage migration issues in Taiwan, her first well-known book is titled Drifting Shoal (流离寻岸): the “Foreign Brides” Phenomenon in Capitalist Globalization (in Chinese). Her other publications analyse issues of immigrants, migrant workers, citizenship, empowerment and social movement. Hsia is also an activist striving for the empowerment of immigrant women and the making of im/migrant movement in Taiwan. She initiated the Chinese programs for marriage migrants in 1995, leading to the establishment of TransAsia Sisters Association, Taiwan (TASAT). She is also the co-founder of the Alliance for the Human Rights Legislation for Immigrants and Migrants and serves as the board member of Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants, and a member of the International Coordinating Body of the International Migrants Alliance. Kayoko ISHII, Ph.D., is a sociologist whose focus of research is on social change of minority/rural population in Thailand. Her current focus is on Thai migrant women and their children in Japan. Amongst her recent publications are Ethnicity and Citizenship: From the Case of Multicultural Community (2007), “Social Network among Foreign Residents in Japan: the Case of Thai Migrants in Tokai Area”, NUCB Journal of Economics and viii List of Contributors Information Science 50, no. 2, and Comparative Study on Networks among Foreign Residents in Japan: Comparative Study on Philippine, Chinese and Thai migrant (2007, edited by K. Ishii, final report for research project of Ichihara International foundation). She is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of Economics, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business. Nora KIM is an assistant professor of sociology at University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. Her research interests include international immigration, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, nationalism, citizenship, and East Asia. She has published in the International Migration...