List of Figures and Tables

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface vi
4. List of Figures and Tables vii
5. List of Abbreviations viii
6. Glossary ix
7. Notes on the Author xi
8. Acknowledgements xii
9. Introduction 1
10. Spatial Mobility to Asia: Moving Ahead by Moving Out
11. The EU Generation and Their Migration Motivations 23
12. Destination Singapore: The Dream of a Cosmopolis 51
13. Global City Tokyo: Japan’s Diversification from Within 66
14. Organisational and Career Mobility: Seizing Security, Success and Self-Realisation
15. Singapore: Professionalising the Self 85
16. Tokyo: (Dis)Embedding in the Japanese Labour Market 103
17. Career Trajectories through an Intersectional Lens 121
18. (Im)Mobility through Differentiated Embedding: The Ties That Bind
19. Immobility and Emplacement: Making the City Home 147
20. Belonging through Romantic Relationships 167
21. Conclusion 186
22. Positionality: Researching Migrants as a Migrant 198
23. Demographic Profiles of Interlocutors 203
24. References 212
25. Index 242