Wind over Water

Anthropologists, geographers, and sociologists, many but not all from Asia, take contemporary migration in East Asia as a valuable opportunity to rethink a mass of migration research and theory that has tended to be dominated by North American and European data, and by North American and European scholars. Having sifted their perspectives through panels, workshops, and conferences around the Pacific Rim from 2006 to 2009, they present essays on migrants, states, and cities; family, gender, lifestyles, and culture; and work, ethnicity, and nationality. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Keiko Yamanaka is Continuing Lecturer in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work appears in a range of books and journals, including Paci?c Affairs; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Diaspora; Asian and Paci?c Migration Journal; and Publications of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).