<ul> <li> Investigates how migrants are changing the face of Asia especially its cities: Beijing Hong Kong Hamamatsu Osaka Tokyo Singapore</li> <li> Demonstrates how the crossing of geographical boundaries is also a crossing of cultural and social categories</li> <li> Reveals extraordinary variation among migrants' origins and trajectories</li> <li> Illuminates how an Asia-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns and new theoretical insights and methodological approaches of human migration</li></ul>