Asia

The most populous and arguably the most dynamic region in the world, Asia presents important questions about migration and social transformation. For instance, Asian countries experience rapid increase of population mobility at the same time as the sophistication of national and international governance of migration. Their emphasis on social order and substantive economic benefits, rather than individual migrant rights, also urges us to rethink established norms. Over the past decade COMPAS has applied its inter-disciplinary approach to understanding these questions at individual, community, national, regional and global scales.  We examine migrations within, into, and out of Asia. For us Asia is not only a place, but also presents a paradigm that may well enrich our understanding of global changes.

Blog Posts

The Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa: how many will come?

Peter Walsh

Lockdown in India: Exodus as an expression of grievance

Manish Maskara

Locked In after Lockdown: Migrant Workers in Wuhan

Willy Sier

Mobile immobility: Circular migrants in India during the pandemic

Indrajit Roy

Rush to Help: Overseas Chinese and the Movement of Face Masks

Biao Zeng

Firefighting the pandemic is inadvertently teaching India how to govern migration

Mukta Naik

The new power of the technologies of immobility

Sharifah Muhammad Talib Alhinai

Human mobility spreads COVID-19, but whose mobility?

Qiujie Shi and Tao Liu

Locked-down cities, flying machines, and growing weeds: A note from China’s Epicentre

Ou Ning

From Chain Reaction to Grid Reaction: Mobilities & Restrictions during SARS & Coronavirus

Biao Xiang

Academic Talents in Singapore: Coming, Going or Staying?

Lucie Cerna & Meng-Hsuan Chou

COMPAS Round Up Summer 2017

COMPAS communications team

Steppes and the city: rural to urban migration in Mongolia [MSc guest blog]

Faraz Shibli

New migrant urbanisms and the United Nations Habitat III conference in Quito

Michael Keith, Nicholas Simcik Arese & Andreza De Souza Santos

Sophie’s journey: Three countries, three stories, same abuse

Emel Coşkun

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2016

COMPAS Communications

Mobility, class and country of origin in the Western Balkans

Diana Ihring

Mediterranean Migration Crisis – Mixed Policies, Mixed Results

COMPAS Communications

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis – field work notes 2015

COMPAS Communications

Leaving Palestine

Nicholas Van Hear

The base: From peasant revolution to labour migration management

Biao Xiang

Sex discrimination and UK immigration law

Catherine Briddick

Gendering Migration

Melanie Griffiths

Mothers’ Migration Motivations

Brandy Cochrane

Gender, class and migration governance: A labour sending country perspective

Hiranthi Jayaweera

Backing themselves: East Timorese labour migrants in Oxford

Andrew McWilliam

The Life of a Multiple Migrant

Richard Allen

‘Can’t change one without the other’: Reforming labour immigration and labour markets in the Gulf States

COMPAS Communications

Books

The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration

Martin Ruhs

Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia

Biao Xiang

Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian International Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

Biao Xiang

Transcending Boundaries. Zhejiangcun: the Story of a Migrant Village in Beijing

Biao Xiang

Reports

Worker, helper, auntie, maid?

COMPAS Communications

Destination Europe? Understanding the dynamics and drivers of Mediterranean migration in 2015

Heaven Crawley, Franck Düvell, Katharine Jones, Simon McMahon and Nando Sigona

Access to Healthcare, Insurance Provision and Health Status of Sri Lankan Migrant Domestic Workers

Hiranthi Jayaweera, Elizabeth H. Shlala and the Centre for Women's Research (CENWOR)

The Great Migration: Urban Aspirations

Michael Keith

Towards a Post-2015 Development Agenda: What Role for Migrant Rights and International Labour Migration?

COMPAS Communications

Migrant Rights, Immigration Policy and Human Development

COMPAS Communications

Clandestino: Ethical Issues in Irregular Migration Research

Franck Düvell, Bastian Vollmer, Anna Triandafyllidou

Promoting Knowledge Exchange Through Diaspora Networks (The Case of People’s Republic of China)

Biao Xiang

Is Trafficking in Human Beings Demand Driven? A Multi-Country Pilot Study

Bridget Anderson, Julia O’Connell Davidson

Journal Articles

The gyroscope-like economy: hypermobility, structural imbalance and pandemic governance in China

Biao Xiang

Towards a new politics of migration?

COMPAS Communications

Visions of Refugia: Territorial and transnational solutions to mass displacement

Robin Cohen & Nicholas Van Hear

Diasporas and conflict: Distance, contiguity and spheres of engagement

Nicholas Van Hear & Robin Cohen

Book Review – Family Upheaval: Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark

COMPAS Communications

Working Papers

Internal borders and migration in India

Zovanga L. Kone, Maggie Y. Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Çağlar Özden & Siddharth Sharma

Strategies and policy effects in the global talent race: foreign academics in Singapore

Lucie Cerna & Meng-Hsuan Chou

Diasporas and Conflict

Nicholas Van Hear & Robin Cohen

The Interactions of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing

Reza Hasmath

Is Citizenship the Answer? Constructions of Belonging and Exclusion for the Stateless Rohingya of Burma

Cresa L. Pugh

The Christianisation of Afghan and Iranian Transit Migrants in Istanbul: Encounters at the Biopolitical Border

Shoshana Fine

“Daughters-in-law of Korea?”: Policies and Discourse on Migration in South Korea

Young Jeong Kim

Openness, Skills and Rights: An Empirical Analysis of Labour Immigration Programmes in 46 High- and Middle-income Countries

COMPAS Communications

Migration and Climate Change: An Overview

Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud, Paul de Guchteneire

Standing Together Apart: Bilateral Migration Agreements and the Temporary Movement of Persons Under “Mode 4” of GATS

Marion Panizzon

“No One Comes Here on Their Own”: The System of Child Labour Migration in Bangladesh

Karin Heissler

International Student Migration and Social Stratification in China

Biao Xiang, Wei Shen

Migrant Labour in Kazakhstan: A Cause for Concern?

Bridget Anderson, Blanka Hancilova

Migration From Iraq Between the Gulf and the Iraq Wars (1990-2003): Historical and Socio-Spatial Dimensions

Géraldine Chatelard

A Ritual Economy of ‘Talent’: China and Overseas Chinese Professionals

Biao Xiang, Xiang Biao

Legality and Labour: Chinese Migration, Neoliberalism and the State in the UK and China

Biao Xiang

Crossing the Fringes of Europe: Transit Migration in the EU’s Neighbourhood

COMPAS Communications

Diaspora Engagement Policies: What Are They, and What Kinds of States Use Them?

Alan Gamlen

Diasporas Good? Diasporas Bad?

COMPAS Communications

Community and Identity in the New Chinese Migration Order

Richard Allen

Does Migration Research Matter in China ? A Review of Migration Research and its Relations to Policy Since the 1980s

Biao Xiang, Tan Shen

How Far Are the Left-Behind Left Behind? A Preliminary Study in Rural China

Biao Xiang

The Political Importance of Diasporas

COMPAS Communications

“I Went As Far As My Money Would Take Me”: Conflict, Forced Migration and Class

Nicholas Van Hear

Other Publications

World Migration Report chapter

Media Reporting of Migrants and Migration

William Allen, Rob McNeil and COMPAS Communications

Research Brief

Understanding the dynamics of migration to Greece and the EU: Drivers, decisions and destinations

Heaven Crawley, Franck Duvell, Katharine Jones and Dimitris Skleparis

Online report

Emigration Trends and Policies in China: Movement of the Wealthy and Highly Skilled

Biao Xiang

Research Brief

Unpacking a Rapidly Changing Scenario

Heaven Crawley, Franck Duvell, Nando Sigona, Simon McMahon, Katharine Jones

Literature review and scoping report

Non-communicable diseases and risk factors in migrants from South Asian countries

Hiranthi Jayaweera and Amy K. McLennan

Research Resources Paper

Humanitarian Problems Relating to Migration in the Turkish-Greek Border Region: The crucial role of civil society organisations

Max Schaub

Projects

Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus (MIGNEX)

Carlos Vargas-Silva | 2018 - 2023

At the fringes of Europe: Transit migration in Ukraine and Turkey (FringeMig)

COMPAS Communications | 2006

Balancing Citizenship of Insiders and Outsiders

COMPAS Communications | September 2013 – April 2017

Converging cultures: The Hadrami diaspora in the Indian Ocean

COMPAS Communications | 2011-2013

Counting the Uncountable: Data and Trends across Europe – Irregular Migration in the UK (Clandestino)

COMPAS Communications | September 2007 - August 2009

Diaspora Engagement in War-Torn Societies

Nicholas Van Hear | January 2011 – December 2015

Emigration Dynamism and Social Transformation in Northeast China

Biao Xiang | 2005

Eumagine: Imagining Europe from the Outside. The Cases of Ukraine, Turkey, Senegal and Morocco

COMPAS Communications | 2010 – 2013

Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks: London-Turkey-Ghana

Richard Allen | 2007 - 2009

PEAK Urban

Michael Keith, Mikal Mast, Rosaleen Cunningham, Bhawani Buswala and ChengHe Guan | 1 October 2017 - 31 December 2021

Risk Cultures in China: An Economic Sociology?

Michael Keith | 2006 – 2009

Social Externalities: China, India, Africa

Michael Keith | 2010 - 2011

Sri Lankan migrant women domestic workers: health insurance provision, access to healthcare and health status

COMPAS Communications | January 2014 – June 2015

The Economics and Politics of Migrant Rights

COMPAS Communications | 2008 – 2014

The employment and working conditions of migrant domestic workers in South East Asia

COMPAS Communications | August 2015 - June 2016

Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis (MEDMIG)

COMPAS Communications | Sep 2015 - Aug 2016

Urban Transformations Coordination

Michael Keith, Mikal Mast and Nathan Grassi | 2015 - 2019

Urbanization from Below

COMPAS Communications | 2013 – 2016