Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia

This book explores the mobilities of capital and labour in the contemporary global economy with a particular focus on Asia. Using an analytical framework around three dimensions related to the forms institutions and spatialities of mobility the chapters use a variety of sub-national national and transnational sites within and beyond Asia to examine the interrelationships between mobilities of capital and labour at multiple levels of analyses. The book foregrounds the intricate and persistent linkages between the two mobilities which have played an important role in capitalist development but have hitherto mostly been analyzed as separate processes.ContentsList of figures; List of tables; List of appendices; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction. Conceptualizing labour and capital mobilities in and out of Asia Preet S. Aulakh and Philip F. Kelly; Part I. From Capital to Labour Mobility: 2. Offshore spaces: multi-scalar bordering processes and the segmented mobilities of capital and labour in Asia Jana M. Kleibert; 3. Japanese multinational companies and the control of overseas investments: expatriates foreign employees and Japans soft power Harald Conrad and Hendrik Meyer-Ohle; 4. Accumulation at the margins? Mineral brokerage and Chinese investments in Philippine mining Alvin A. Camba; 5. Soft power and transnationalism affecting capital and labour mobility: Chinese diaspora in Mexico and Peru Francisco J. Valderrey Miguel A. Montoya and Mauricio Cervantes; 6. The spatial decoupling and recombination of capital and labour: understanding the new flows across the China-South East Asia borderlands Xiangming Chen Na Fu Sam Zhou and Gavin Xu; Part II. From Labour to Capital Mobility: 7. Skills development initiatives and labour migration in a secondary circuit of globalized production: evidence from the garment industry in India Asha Kuzhiparambil; 8. The counter geographies of globalization: womens labour migration along the Nepal-Persian Gulf migratory corridor Hari KC; 9. Migration and developmental capital in a Punjab village Rosy Hastir; 10. The production of nurses for global markets: tracing capital and labour circulation in and out of Asia Margaret Walton-Roberts; 11. The mobility-oligopoly nexus in Philippine property development Kenneth Cardenas; Contributors; Index.