Documentos CIDOB Asia; 13

The pioneering, multidisciplinary nature of this work defines the first compilation to be presented in the academic sphere on the study of the presence of East Asian (Japanese, Korean and Chinese) communities in Western Europe, with contributions from social anthropology, political science and geography. The different contributions that comprise the analysis of the characteristics of these immigration flows, whose settlement in Europe did not reach a significant volume in terms of population and economic interests until after World War II, highlight a concrete aspect upon which each one is organised, according to its origin. In the case of the evolution of the Japanese presence, the step from an immigration dominated by institutions to one of a more individual and voluntary nature; in the Korean case, the new ethnic and identity element produced in Korean immigration contexts, promoted by interaction among its groups; and in the Chinese case, the process of universalisation and diversification of the Chinese migratory order, which is of great influence in the global migratory framework.

Authors: Paul White, Lecturer in Geography at the University of Sheffield; Park Hwa – Seo, Lecturer and Head of the Migration Studies Department, Myongji University, (Republic of Korea); Frank N. Pieke, University Professor of Modern Politics and Society of China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford; and Joaquín Beltrán (ed.), Lecturer in East Asian Studies, College of Translation and Interpretation, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Co-Director of the Research Network on Asian Communities in Spain, RICAE – CIDOB.

ISSN: 1696-9987 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-381X (online edition)

124 pp.

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