Migration Governance in Asia: A Multi-level Analysis

The contributors to this book investigate migration governance in Asia through a multilevel analysis, addressing its local, national and regional dimensions as well as placing it in the wider context of global migration governance.

Core case studies include migration to and within Japan, the migration of Burmese and Tibetan refugees to India, and the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Evaluating the rules, norms and processes put in place by state and non-state actors to cope with international migration, the contributors focus especially on migration flows and the extent to which Asian cases are distinct from those elsewhere. This includes comparative cases from Europe and the United States to provide a comparative context for the analysis of Asia.

A valuable resource for students and scholars of migration studies, especially those with a particular interest in Asia.

Kazunari Sakai is Professor at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan. Awarded MA from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1994 and PhD from Kobe University in 2007. After working for the Ministry of Education of Japan and Tokyo Institute of Technology, he joined Kobe University as an academic member. He stayed as invited professor at Sciences Po Paris, Université Paris Nanterre and Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. His research focuses on the EU’s external relations with neigbouring countries, migration issues across the Mediterranean Sea, and global governance related to migration.

Noemi Lanna is Associate Professor at the University of Naples "L’Orientale" where she teaches "Modern and Contemporary History of Japan" and "Japan in the international system". She holds a Master of Arts in Social Sciences (Hitotsubashi University) and a PhD in Asian studies (University of Naples "L’Orientale”). She served as a postgraduate Monbukagakushō fellow at Hitotsubashi University (1998-2000), a "visiting PhD candidate" at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003-2004), visiting professor of the KUPES Programme, Kobe University (2016), and visiting professor for the Erasmus staff mobility for teaching programme at Ruhr Universität Bochum (2019). Her research interests focus on international history of East Asia and on modern and contemporary history of Japan, with particular reference to postwar intellectual history.