Global Asian City provides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities.

FRANCIS L. COLLINS, PhDis Professor of Geography at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. His research focuses on international migration and cities with a particular emphasis on the experiences, mobility patterns, and government regulation of temporary migrants in urban contexts. He is author of numerous articles in a range of international journals and is co-editor of Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts.

Series Editors Preface vi

Acknowledgements vii

1 Introduction 1

2 Desire, Assemblage and Encounter: Beyond Regimes of Migration Management 24

3 Migration Regimes, Migrant Biographies and Discrepancy 47

4 Migration, the Urban Periphery and the Politics of Migrant Lives 71

5 Channelling Desire and Diversity 101

6 Negotiating Privilege and Precarity in Suburban Seoul 128

7 Multicultural Presence and Fractured Futures 153

8 Conclusion 181

References 194

Index 209