Global Asian City

Series Editor’s 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