• Geography of Chinatowns and Chinese Migration , University of Victoria
  The study of urban overseas Chinese communities in Pacific Rim countries. Includes migration theory, concepts of culture conflict, assimilation and acculturation, urban ethnicity, home environment of Chinese emigrants, attitudes and policies of host society towards Chinese immigrants and imprints of Chinese culture on the urban landscape of the receiving country. Emphasis will be placed on the Chinese migration to Canada and the urban problems of Canadian Chinatowns.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/442.html - August 6, 2004

• Americans in China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• China Migration Country Study , Pieke, Frank N, and Ping, Huang
  In this article, Dr. Ping, from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Sociology, and Dr. Pieke, from Oxford University's Institute of Chinese Studies, collaborate to present the history and contemporary nature of rural-urban labor migration. Their goal in doing so is to provide policy-makers makers with a practical background for designing and implementing pro-poor policies. In covering the history of rural-urban labor migration, the authors describe the characteristics of rural migrants in detail, including their motivations for migrating, education levels, points of origin, and differences in migration patterns between genders. The article also addresses institutional factors such as changes to the hukou system, priorities of policy-makers versus those of policy-implementors and migrants, and the over-arching relationship between migration, economics, and development in rural and urban areas.
  203.93.24.66/shxs/s09_shx/zlk/huangping/DFID_Web_Paper_3.pdf - June 22, 2003

• China's Floating Population: New Evidence from the 2000 Census , Liang, Zai, and Ma, Zhongdong
  According to Population and Development Review, \\\"this article uses tabulations from the 2000 Population Census of China along with a micro-level data sample from the census to provide a picture of China\\\'s floating population: migrants without local household registration (hukou), a status resulting in significant social and economic disadvantages. By 2000, the size of China\\\'s floating population had grown to nearly 79 million, if that category is defined as migrants who moved between provinces or counties and resided at their destinations for six months or more. Intra-county floating migration is similarly large, contributing another 66 million to the size of the floating population. The article also discusses the geographic pattern of the floating population and the reasons for moving as reported by migrants. Policy implications are noted.\\\"
  web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=0319652614429d89a024385685065bc6&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVtz-zSkVA&_md5=5dcb55d48e57829a34bf8370fb815ada - March 2, 2005

• China: From Exceptional Case to Global Participant , Skeldon, Ronald
  Quoted from author: "China has been and continues to be one of the great sources of international migration, so much so that Chinese people live in virtually every country of the world today. Towards the end of the 20th century, it was estimated that there were some 33 million ethnic Chinese living outside China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Large though this figure might appear, it is small compared with the total population of China itself, representing only 2.5 percent of a figure that presently exceeds 1.3 billion."
  www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=219 - April 1, 2004

• China: From Exceptional Case to Global Participant , Skeldon, Ronald
  This country profile provides a recent history on various forms of migration in China, Their role as the predominant group migrating to North America and Australasia is discussed, as well as recent indicators that Europe is becoming their preferred destination over North America. The status of irregular, or smuggled migrants, is also addressed.
  http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=219 - April 27, 2005

• Chinese Immigration in the Russian Far East: Regional, National, and International Dimensions , Minakir, Pavel A.
  This is a chapter from the book "Cooperation and Conflict in the Former Soviet Union: Implications for Migration", edited by Jeremy R. Azrael, Emil A. Payin, Kevin F. McCarthy, and Georges Vernez, and published by the Rand Corporation.Ê In his chapter 'Chinese Immigration in the Far East: Regional, National, and International Dimensions' Pavel Minakir explains the issue of Chinese migration in the Russian Far East. Hyped by local political elites and the media in Primorsky and Khabarovsk provinces, this issue led to the escalation of tensions between Russia and China during 1994. This burgeoning conflict, in addition to its immediate dampening effects on economic performance in the Russian Far East, complicated Moscow's effort to reestablish central political control of the region. As a result, the issue of Chinese migration has had a significant effect on Moscow's regional, national, and international policies.
  www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF130/CF130ch7.pdf - September 30, 2004

• Chinese Migration , University of Toronto
  This course will explore the history of Chinese external migration and assess its significance for contemporary theories about migration and in world history. Topics covered include the historical context to Chinese emigration; migration to southeast Asia and North America; the interaction between European imperialism and Chinese migration; creolization, Chinatown and the creation of new Chinese societies abroad.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_his.htm - January 1, 2004

• Europe Attracts More Migrants from China , Laczko, Frank
  While North America, specifically the U.S. and Canada, is traditionally the preferred destination for Chinese migrants, Laczko finds that Europe is becoming increasingly popular. He sees this in an increase in the regions from which Chinese migrants come, the rapid rate of increase in their arrival in Europe, a growing use of new modes of migration, such student migration and irregular migration.
  www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=144 - April 27, 2005

• Human Smuggling , Smith, Paul J.
  Trafficking in human beings from the People\'s Republic of China has emerged as a major immigration and security problem for the United States and other countries. More than three years after the smuggling ship, Golden Venture, carrying nearly 300 Chinese migrants ran aground off Queens, New York, Chinese migrant trafficking into the United States not only persists but shows no sign of abating. This illegal immigration is organized by highly effective alien smuggling organizations that use routes involving more than 30 countries, according to the United Nations, and earn hundreds of millions of dollars. Moreover, it is a human rights tragedy¡ªthose unable to pay their full transportation fees once they reach the United States are frequently locked up in \"safe houses\" where they are subjected to physical abuse until they can pay. The authors of this volume focus on the roots of this growth industry and examine the various \"push\" and \"pull\" factors¡ªsuch as population pressures and, ironically, China\'s opening to the outside world¡ªthat are fueling the current Chinese exodus.
  csis.zoovy.com/product/0892062916 - February 1, 2005

• Migration Merchants: Human Smuggling from Ecuador and China , Kyle, David and Zai, Liang
  From the authors\' abstract: \"Human smuggling is a phenomenon that further blurs the already fuzzy boundaries between economic migrant and refugee, legal and illegal immigrant. Many state policy-makers and NGOs are concerned that if they admit immigrants or refugees who use human smugglers, this will encourage smugglers to further break immigration laws. This paper questions the assumption that illegal migrants are like any other illegal commodity crossing state borders. Kyle argues that most migrant smugglers are social bandits who may be considered unsavory and even dangerous by their home societies, but not as \"criminals.\" Even states that are \"victims\" of human smugglers do not uniformly paint them as criminal and evil. In contrast to common thieves and smugglers, there is a highly politicized historical dimension to both the motivations of social bandits and to those who see them as either criminals (i.e., transnational organized crime) or \"freedom fighters\". Although migration research has a signifanct role to play in the understanding of transnational social banditry, current migration theory does not sufficeintly expalin the shrap rise in human smuggling around the world, especially in terms of how it conceptualizes \"demand\". To illustrate these points, special attention will be given to emigration from Ecuador to the United States and Spain, including the organizaion of illicit \"migrant export schemes\".
  www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg43.PDF - April 27, 2005

• Multilevel Analysis of Rural Outmigration in Guangdong, China , Zhu, Junming
  This paper argues for more effective policies in China to address the gender, income, and other social inequalities that encourage rural-urban migration. The author suggests that rural residents migrate en masse to the urban areas almost as a means of self-preservation from the desperate poverty of village life and their lack of faith in rural development. Using data collected from a baseline survey and corresponding multi-level analyses of migrants marital status, education levels, community development levels, incomes, number of residents per household, and hukou status, this article concludes that the higher a labor migrant\\\\\\\'s education, the more likely he or she will be to seek employment in cities.
  www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcpds/wpweb/97_03.pdf - February 25, 2005

• North Koreans in China: Defining the Problems and Offering Some Solutions , Smith, Hazel
  "North Koreans in China: Defining the Problems and Offering Some Solutions" by Hazel Smith, professor at the Universtity of Warwick. Seminar proceedings of "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21, 2002.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200207Smith.pdf - January 31, 2003

• Recent Trends of Emigration from China: 1982-2000 , Liang, Zai and Morooka, Hideki
  Using data from several Chinese censuses and surveys, the article provides a new perspective for the study of international migration focusing on the trends of international migration from China and Fujian province between 1982 and 2000. The paper ends with a discussion of the prospects of assimilation of Fujianese immigrants in destination societies. Published in International Migration, Vol. 42 (3)
  www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/toc/imig/42/3 - August 1, 2004

• Rural-Urban Migration in China: Temporary Migrants in Search of Permanent Settlement , Garcia, Beatriz Carrillo
  This paper illustrates how China\\\'s economic and urban development goals benefit from the flood of rural laborers migrating to its urban areas. While these migrant laborers suffer through the 3-D (difficult, dirty and dangerous) jobs that support the infrastructure for China\\\'s development, the upper classes prosper from this support while the migrants suffer. This cycle continues even as China has begun relaxing its hukou, or household registration, system, to allow freer movement of people, i.e. labor, throughout the county. To cope with the challenges of life in the urban areas, rural migrants create self-sustaining enclaves, with reputations as skilled producers of certain goods and services, to provide basic sanitation, health, education and telecommunication services. As Beijing renovates itself ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics, these enclaves risk demolition and the threat of suffering from futher social stigma and discriminatory labor, education and housing policies.
  epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/portal/viewarticle.php?id=22&layout=abstract - February 25, 2005

• Small Dreams Beyond Reach: The Lives of Migrant Children and Youth Along the Borders of China, Myanmar and Thailand , Caouette, Therese M.
  Quoted from Eldis: "This report provides an awareness of the realities and perspectives among migrant children, youth and their communities, as a means of building respect and partnerships to address their vulnerabilities to exploitation and abusive environments. The needs and concerns of migrants along the borders of China, Myanmar and Thailand are highlighted and recommendations to address these are made.
  www.savethechildren.org.uk/temp/scuk/cache/cmsattach/412_smalldreams.pdf - January 1, 2001

• Szonyi, Michael A. , Szonyi, Michael A.
  Mr. Michael Szonyi's current research is on the effects of emigration on rural communities in southern Fujian and Guangdong provinces in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His undergraduate teaching consists of a survey course on the history of China, upper-level undergraduate courses on modern China and Chinese international relations, and seminars on a variety of topics including the peasant in modern China, the Cultural Revolution, and Chinese emigration. he has also offered graduate fields on Ming China, modern China, and international relations of the Asia/Pacific.
  www.chass.utoronto.ca/~mszonyi/ - October 28, 2004

• Temporary Migration and The Spread of STDs/AIDS in China: Is There A Link? , Yang, Xiushi
  This author uses various statistcal analyses and a community survey to determine if the recent rise in the STD and HIV/AIDS rate in China corresponds to increased labor migration. Citing the anonymity of the migrant lifestyle, as well as the apparent youth of most migrants, and how many female migrants are forced into sex-work, the author states that migrants express dangerously high levels of at-risk behavior. The author concludes that migrant workers are over-represented throughout China in populations having STDs, HIV/AIDS, and who identify as Intravenous Drug Users (IDUs).
  http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3668/is_200404/ai_n9375983/print - February 23, 2005

• The Inivisible Hand and Visible Feet: Internal Migration in China , Fang, Cai
  The author assesses how the relaxing of the hukou system from the 1980s throughout the 1990s affected the concept of migration and labor mobility in China.  Specifically, he notes that under the hukou system, most migrants fell into one of three groups:  migrants who moved from one area to another for the long-term as part of the state's plan to spread laborers throughout the nation, those who did it for the short-term, and those who did so illegally for work in the black and grey markets. As the hukou system contined to relax into the 1990s, migrants' mobility increased on both rural-rural and rural-urban levels.  Within these trends, the author also addresses how migrants evaluate the role of human capital in determining where to migrate, why rural families prefer to encourage migration of men, but not women, the growth of the rural-urban wage gap, and how national policies favoring urban growth and industry over agriculture lay the groundwork for migration patterns.
  www.cass.net.cn/chinese/s06_rks/chrrsite/paper/working%20paper%205.pdf - February 21, 2005

• Transatlantic Workshop on Human Smuggling: Conference Report , Heckman, Friedrich, Martin, Susan F., McGrath, Kelly, and Wunderlich, Tanja
  This report from Georgetown University\'s Transatlantic Workshop on Human Smuggling provides a brief but detailed case study on smuggling from China. The case study discusses how Chinese slip through U.S. borders using Japanese documents, or by visiting multiple transit points before entering through Mexico. Also addressed is the issue that, given the relatively small number of Chinese smuggled into North America and Europe every year, the smuggling of Chinese over other racial groups receives a disproportionate amount of attention.
  www.uni-bamberg.de/projekte/humsmug/cr_e.pdf - May 2, 2005

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• Japanese Policies and Realities , Komai, Hiroshi
  Text of speech given by Prof. Komai at the conference on "Globalization, Migration, and Human Security," UNU headquarters, Tokyo, October 6, 2003.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/2003_Komai.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Russian Migrants in Niigata and Hokkaido: A Research Update , Akaha, Tsuneo and Vassilieva, Anna
  "Russian Migrants in Niigata and Hokkaido: A Research Update" by Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva. Seminar proceedings of "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21, 2002.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200205AkahaVass.pdf - January 31, 2003

• Technological Superiority and the Losses From Migration , Davis, Donald R., Weinstein, David E.
  Note: In order to access the paper, select Publications from the Menu on the left and choose Working Papers. Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and capital. Indeed, these two facts may be strongly related: All factors seek to enter the US because of the US technological superiority. The literature on international factor flows rarely links these two phenomena, instead considering one-at-a-time analyses that stress issues of relative factor abundance. This is unfortunate, since the welfare calculations differ markedly. In a simple Ricardian framework, a country that experiences immigration of factors motivated by technological differences always loses from this migration relative to a free trade baseline, while the other country gains. We provide simple calculations suggesting that the magnitude of the losses for US natives may be quite large, $72 billion dollars per year or 0.8 percent of GDP.
  www2.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ - March 2, 2005

• The Korean Community in Japan and Shimane , Mervio, Mika
  "The Korean Community in Japan and Shimane" by Mika Mervio, professor at the University of Shimane, Hamada, Japan. Seminar proceedings of "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21, 2002.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200206Mervio.pdf - January 31, 2003

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• China and North Korean "Refugees" , McCarthy, Thomas F.
  The author, Thomas F. McCarthy, has traveled frequently to the DPRK as an agricultural development consultant and has worked in Washington, most recently in cooperation with the Atlantic Council's 'Korea in Transition Program.'  McCarthy argues that NGOs have no right to risk the consequences of Chinese or DPRK decisions to prevent people from receiving continued aid because of misdirected efforts to turn their plight into an international political issue.  Instead, these groups could be more effective by supporting World Bank and IMF efforts at development assistance programs.
  69.44.62.160/archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/special_reports/mccarthy_refugees.txt - March 21, 2002

• Democracy, History, and Migrant Labor in South Korea: Korean Chinese, North Koreans, and Guest Workers , Park, Hyun Ok
  This paper concerns the paradox of democratization in South Korea, whose progression has been entwined with neoliberal capitalism beginning in the 1990s. A particular form of democratization addressed in this paper is the broad-reaching initiatives to transform the relationship between the state and society. Specifically, the initiative to rewrite colonial and cold-war history was examined. This particular initiative is part of an effort to correct a longstanding tendency of previous military regimes that suppressed the resolution of colonial legacies and framed Korean national history within an ideological confrontation of capitalist South Korea and communist North Korea.
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20790/ - February 22, 2005

• North Korean Defectors and Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Cooperation , Dong-man, Suh
  The government of China swiftly resolved the recent incident where a group of 25 North Korean asylum seekers rushed into the grounds of the Spanish Embassy in Beijing - apparently out of concern that the defection might have a spillover effect, creating a much more serious situation. Reaching South Korea via a third country seems to have become a common method of defection by North Koreans, as in the case involving the Jang Gil-suh family last year. The issue of North Korean defectors is a political minefield, affecting the trilateral relationship between the two Koreas and China. And the latest defection is likely to trigger NGOs that support North Korean defectors to pressure the Seoul government to double its diplomatic efforts to grant them refugee status.
  69.44.62.160/archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/special_reports/DPRKrefugees.txt - May 7, 2002

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• Migrating for More: Children's Access to Education in Mongolia , Marshall, Jenni et al
  Quoted from CHIP: "This summarises the findings of CHIP research on migration and children's access to education in Mongolia. Key findings are that: finding work and increasing children's educational opportunities are two of the most important reasons for migration. However, school-aged migrant children are more than three times more likely to be out of school than long-term resident children. There are a range of reasons for this including: schools not accepting migrant children, lack of a nearby school, livestock-hering duties and the costs of schooling. Out-migration may be contributing to declining educational opportunities in rural areas as resources available to schools fall and with high poverty levels among those left behind, meeting educational costs may not take priority. The briefing makes a range of recommendations as to how migrant and non-migrant children's educational opportunities may be enhanced."
  www.childhoodpoverty.org/index.php/action=documentfeed/doctype=pdf/id=190/ - March 1, 2005

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• Chinese Migration to the Russian Far East: A Human Security Dilemma , Wishnick, Elizabeth
  \"Chinese Migration to the Russian Far East: A Human Security Dilemma\" by Elizabeth Wishnick, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Lingnan University of Hong Kong. Seminar proceedings of \"Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia\" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21,2002.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200209Wishnick.pdf - January 31, 2003

• Chinese Migration to the Russian Far East: A View from Moscow , Gelbras, Vilya
  "Chinese Migration to the Russian Far East: A View from Moscow" by Vilya Gelbras, professor at Moscow State University. Seminar proceedings of "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21,2002.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200208Gelbras.pdf - January 31, 2003

• Cold Peace: Russia's New Imperialism , Bugajski, Janusz
  The Russian regime under President Vladimir Putin has embarked on a coherent long-term strategy to regain its influence over former satellites and to limit Western penetration in key parts of this region. Moscow is intent on steadily rebuilding Russia as a major power on the Eurasian stage and will use its neighbors as a springboard for expanding its dominance. In this first systematic analysis detailing Russia¡¯s post¨CCold War imperialism, Bugajski challenges the contemporary equivalent of Cold War appeasement, which views Russia as a benign and pragmatic power that seeks cooperation and integration with the West.
  csis.zoovy.com/product/0275983625 - February 1, 2005

• DaVanzo, Julie , RAND Corportation
  Dr. Julie DaVanzo is an expert in world population issues; the implications of demographic change; family planning and demographics in Russia.
  www.rand.org/news/experts/davanzo.html - October 29, 2004

• The Korean Chinese (Chosonjok) in the Russian Far East: A Research Note , Lee, Jeanyoung
  "The Korean Chinese (Chosonjok) in the Russian Far East: A Research Note" by Jeanyoung Lee, Kyunghee, University of Korea. Seminar proceedings of "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21,2002.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200210Lee.pdf - January 31, 2003

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• Characteristics of Chinese Human Smugglers , Chin, Ko-lin and Zhang, Sheldon
  In this article for the U.S. Department of State's National Institute of Justice, Drs. Chin and Zhang, both reknowned experts on issue of smuggling people from China to the U.S., bring new insight to the characteristics of Chinese human smugglers, known as snakeheads. Contrary to prevailing views, their research shows that neither smugglers nor the communities in which they work consider them criminals, but rather as providing a valuable service to their fellow citizens. Additionally, Chin and Zhang found no ties between the loosely affiliated networks of freelance smugglers that they interviewed and organized Chinese gangs, or triads, casting doubt on the idea that smuggling ventures are managed by a central leader overseeing a smuggling enterprise. Chin and Zhang also highlight that any smuggling networks, whether formal or informal, could not be as successful as they are without collusion from China's numerous corrupt public officials.
  www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/204989.pdf - April 8, 2005

• Why Do They Leave Their Homes? , Mah, Karen
  This overview on the reasons behind Chinese illegal immigration to the U.S. provides insights from numerous experts on the subject, including Ko-lin Chin of Rutgers University, Paul J. Smith, author of Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America's Migration Tradition, and Peter Kwong, author of Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor. Among the reasons stated are immigrants' economic motivation, peer pressure, and increasing unemployment in China. The financial and emotional costs of illegal immigration are also discussed, including the hardships of immigrants' new lives in the U.S.
  usinfo.state.gov/eap/east_asia_pacific/chinese_human_smuggling/why_leave.html - April 8, 2005

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• Cross-border Human Flows in Northeast Asia , United States Institute of Peace
  Webcast of Presentations on "Cross-border Human Flows in Northeast Asia," United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., June 24, 2004. Presentations by Tsuneo Akaha, Robert Scalapino, and Hazel Smith, and discussion by Demetri Papademetriou, chaired by Taylor Seybolt.
  usip.org/events/2004/0624_wksmigration.html - July 14, 2004

• Cross-Border Human Flows in Northeast Asia , Akaha, Tsuneo
  This paper, by Prof. Tsuneo Akaha of the Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, addresses the various issues that increased cross-border human flows in Northeast Asia have brought to light. These issues range from host country social stability to traditional national security and non-traditional human security. Prof. Akaha bases his analysis on three case studies: Chinese migration; North Korean migration to China; and Russians in Japan.
  www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=257 - September 30, 2004

• Globalization, Migration, and Human Security: Challenges in Northeast Asia , Thakur, Ramesh
  Text of speech given by the Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University at the conference on "Globalization, Migration, and Human Security," UNU headquarters, Tokyo, October 6, 2003.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/2003_ThakurEdited.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia , Akaha, Tsuneo
  "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia, Seminar Proceedings, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21, 2002." Edited by Tsuneo Akaha. with the assistance of Anna Vassilieva and Shizu Naruse, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey, California, January 31, 2003. Monterey Institute of International Studies.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200201Introduction.pdf - May 12, 2004

• Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia: Introduction , Akaha, Tsuneo
  Seminar proceedings of "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21, 2002. "Introduction" by Prof. Tsuneo Akaha, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200201Introduction.pdf - January 31, 2003

• Human Flows Project , Center for East Asian Studieds
  Description of research project "Cross-border Human Flows in Northeast Asia: A Human Security Perspective" (2001-2004) at the Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, with downloadable research reports.
  www.miis.edu/rcenters-ceas-hmnflows.html - July 14, 2004

• Human Flows Project , Center for East Asia Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
  Research project at the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), at the Monterey Institute of International Studies: "Human Flows Project"- examining human migration in Northeast Asia.
  www.miis.edu/rcenters-ceas-hmnflows.html - July 17, 2004

• Migration Patterns in Northeast Asia: An Update , Van Arsdol, Jr., Maurice D.; Guarin, Glenn DC; Lam, Stephen
  "Migration Patterns in Northeast Asia: An Update" by Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., Glenn DC Guarin, and Stephen Lam. Seminar proceedings of "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21,2002.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200203VanArsdol.pdf - January 31, 2003

• Northeast Asia Today - An Overview , Scalapino, Robert A.
  "Northeast Asia Today - An Overview" by Robert Scalapino, Professor EmeritusÊat the University of California, Berkeley. Seminar proceedings of "Human Flows across National Borders in Northeast Asia" held at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, November 20-21, 2002.
  gsti.miis.edu/CEAS-PUB/200202Scalapino.pdf - January 31, 2003

• Population/Migration in Northeast Asia , Van Arsdol, Jr., Maurice D.
  Northeast Asia (NEA) is an a area of great economic and political promise that has experienced state-to-state conflicts, nationalist clashes, and “conflicts of civilizations. NEA nations (China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and the Russian Federation) contain more than one-fourth of the earth\'s population. One twentieth of the earth\'s population lives within the region itself (Helongjian, Liaoning, and Jilin Provinces of China, the Russian Far East, and the entirety of the other nations). NEA populations are transitioning from high to low birth and death rates, from population homogeneity to diversity, aging rapidly, urbanizing, and engaged in unsettling cross border population flows. AIDS epidemics in China and Russia, ethnic conflicts, and refugee incidents and other migration issues further challenge regional stability. This course summarizes NEA population history, the current NEA population situation, and how to use population information to enhance stability in NEA. Students will develop a policy memorandum to respond to a current NEA population issue. There are no prerequisites for this course.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_NEA_PopMigration.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Population/Migration in Northeast Asia , Van Arsdol, Jr., Maurice D.
  Northeast Asia (NEA) is an a area of great economic and political promise that has experienced state-to-state conflicts, nationalist clashes, and “conflicts of civilizations.” NEA nations (China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and the Russian Federation) contain more than one-fourth of the earth’s population. One twentieth of the earth’s population lives within the region itself (Helongjian, Liaoning, and Jilin Provinces of China, the Russian Far East, and the entirety of the other nations). NEA populations are transitioning from high to low birth and death rates, from population homogeneity to diversity, aging rapidly, urbanizing, and engaged in unsettling cross-border population flows. AIDS epidemics in China and Russia, ethnic conflicts, and refugee incidents and other migration issues further challenge regional stability. This course summarizes NEA population history, the current NEA population situation, and how to use population information to enhance stability in NEA. Students will develop a policy memorandum to respond to a current NEA population issue. There are no prerequisites for this course.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/IP559-SP05_Syllabus.pdf - February 2, 2005

• Van Arsdol, Jr. , Maurice D. , Monterey Institute of International Studies
  Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of International Policy Studies. Expertise: Population and human security policy; migration; population and global environmental change; maternal and child health; urbanization.
  www.miis.edu/gsips-faculty.html?id=45 - October 2, 2004

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• New Migrations, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeast and East Asia , Castles, Stephen
  The rapidly increasing mobility of the population is a central aspect of the widespread social transformations occurring in East and Southeast Asia. This involves migrations of many types: migrant workers, business people, professionals, family members or refugees. It also takes place across many scales, from internal, to neighbouring countries or intercontinental. Much migration is the result of labourrecruitment by governments and employers, but it is rapidly becomes a selfsustaining process. Two factors, the emergence of social networks linking migrants and the development of a ‘migration industry? including agents and brokers of all kinds, tend to perpetuate migration flows. In this context, government immigration policies are often unsuccessful. Immigrant policies (e.g. policies concerning the situation of foreign residents) are generally reactive, ad hoc, and often ineffective.
  www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/working%20papers/castles.pdf - June 12, 1998

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• Bao, Wurlig , Department of Ethnic Studies
  Dr. Wurlig Bao is the Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. Her research interests include ethnicity/race, regionalism, nationalism and transnationalism in the U.S. and Asia; globalization, urbanization and cultural commodification in the U.S. and China; globalization and postmodernist socialist ideologies in China, Russia and Mongolia; and Chinese diaspora in the U.S. and Pacific Rim.
  www.humboldt.edu/~ethnic/bao.html - October 18, 2004

• Bibliography on Migration in Asia-Pacific and Northeast Asia , Akaha, Tsuneo and Saalman, Lora
  A bibliography of Migration Studies publications concerning the Asia-Pacific Region and Northeast Asia.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/bibliography/NEA_Migration_Bibliography_2004-09-29.pdf - September 29, 2004

• Trafficking in Children: China and Asian Perspective , Ren, Xin
  The author describes the kinds of trafficking children face throughout China and Asia, as well as the characteristics of trafficked children. The reasons for trafficking children often include illegal adoption, reunification with family members, forcible organ removal for transplant purposes, sexual exploitation, labor exploitation, and the bride trade. Statistics to illustrate the scope of the problem are also provided, as well as an appendix listing numerous international legal instruments and organizations designed to combat the trafficking of women and children.
  www.ibcr.org/PAGE_EN/2004%20Conference%20documents/Ren_ENG.pdf - November 20, 2004

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• The Legal Dimensions of Preventing Forced Migration , Helton, Arthur C.
  Arthur Helton's article, 'The Legal Dimensions of Preventing Forced Migration' is a chapter from the Rand Corporation's book "Cooperation and Conflict in the Former Soviet Union: Imlications for Migration," editors Jeremy R. Azrael, Emil A. Payin, Kevin F. McCarthy, and Georges Vernez. In his chapter, Mr. Helton studies the variety of factors causing population displacements. Some are in the nature of emergencies. Armed conflicts and widespread violations of fundamental human rights often precipitate mass population movements. Environmental catastrophes and natural disasters frequently produce forced movements of people. Other factors are chronic in character. Economic underdevelopment and disparity, environmental degradation, deforestation, desertification, and failures of governance can promote population movements. Often, involuntary displacements result from a complex interaction of numerous causes for which the identification of solutions is sometimes elusive.
  www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF130/CF130ch12.pdf - September 30, 2004

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