This edited collection of essays describes the main broad streams of Asian migration and their wide geographical spread, both in terms of migrants' origins and their destinations. Evidence comes from several of the countries of South and East Asia. It shows migrants moving within their own countries; abroad but still within Asia; and overseas particularly to Britain and North America. The essays address both the subjective and objective causes of migration and some of the consequences, for the individual, the family and the migrant community both as an entity and in relation to the host society.

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Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; J.M.Brown & R.Foot - The Chinese as Overseas Migrants; E.Wickberg - Three Phases of South Asian Emigration; C.Peach - The Modern Zoroastrian Diaspora; J.R.Hinnells - The Indian Diaspora in the United States; R.Daniels - Renewing an Industrial Past: British Pakistani Entrepreneurship in Manchester; P.Werbner - Why Move? Regional and Long Distance Migrations of Gujarati Jains; M.Banks - The Movement of Indian Muslims to West Pakistan After 1947: Partition-Related Migration and its Consequences for the Pakistani Province of Sind; S.Ansari - Illegal Foreign Migrant Workers in Japan: Change and Challenge in Japanese Society; Y.Sellek - Relocation in Vietnam and Outmigration: The Ideological and Economic Context; L.Hitchcox - The Movement of Population to the West of China: Tibet and Qinghai; G.E.Clarke - Index