International Labour Migration in the Middle East and Asia

Lian Kwen Fee is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. His research interests include race and ethnicity, migration and multiculturalism. His two most recent books are Multiculturalism, migration, and the politics of identity in Singapore and International migration in Southeast Asia (eds).   Naomi Hosoda is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Her main research interest is anthropological studies on Filipino migration, with a focus on cultural normality, family, transnational community, education, and citizenship in Asia and the Middle East.  Masako Ishii is a professor at the College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Japan. Her main research interest examines area studies of Muslim society in the Philippines focusing on gender, migration, armed conflict and the peace process. 

Chapter 1 Introduction: Migrants in the Middle East and Asia.- Chapter 2 Ethnocracy in the Arab Gulf States: Oil Rent, Migrants, and Authoritarian Regimes.- Chapter 3 Empowerment of Migrant Domestic Workers: Muslim Filipinas in the UAE.- Chapter 4 Complexities of Inclusion and Exclusion amongst Intermarried Filipino Migrant Workers in the UAE.- Chapter 5 ‘This is Our Home, But We Cannot Stay Here Forever’: Second Generation Asian Youth in Kuwait and the UAE.- Chapter 6 Promoting Diversity, Branding the State: Migrant-friendly Discourse in the UAE.- Chapter 7 Brunei Darussalam: Female Labour Force Participation and Foreign Domestic Workers.- Chapter 8 Space of Emancipation or Space of Insecurity: Gendered Dimensions in ‘Nepal Town’, South Korea.- Chapter 9 International Migration and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.