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Mark Whitehead
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Jeff Neilson and Bill Pritchard
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Peter Ravenscroft, Hugh Brammer and Keith Richards
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Georgina H. Endfield
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Stephen Legg
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Name: Collins, Francis L. (Francis Leo), author.
Title: Global Asian city : migration, desire and the politics of encounter in 21st century Seoul / by Francis L. Collins.
Description: Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley, 2018. | Series: RGS‐IBG book series | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017057649 (print) | LCCN 2017057776 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119380023 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119380047 (epub) | ISBN 9781119379980 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119380009 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Seoul (Korea)–Social conditions. | Korea (South)–Emigration and immigration. | Municipal engineering–Korea (South)–Seoul.
Classification: LCC HN730.5.S46 (ebook) | LCC HN730.5.S46 C65 2018 (print) | DDC 306.095195–dc23
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Cover image: Damunhwa Gil/Multicultural Street, Ansan City, South Korea © Francis L. Collins
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Like migration, writing a book is not an individual endeavour: it demands support from family, friends, colleagues, community groups and participants; it is often enhanced by research funding; and it has significance through its impact with others. I am immensely grateful to the many people and organisations that have assisted in the writing of Global Asian City.
I am grateful firstly to the participants that have informed this book. The time and insight they have offered is what made this research possible; I only hope that the presentation of these stories does justice to their contribution. The completion of the book was made possible by many researchers and colleagues: Đô Diêu Khuê, Vorarerk Khunthongkum, Jeremiah Magoncia and Viko Zakhary ably assisted with interviews; Gil‐Sung Park, Doyoung Song and In‐Jin Yoon provided generous support and the Asiatic Research Institute at Korea University provided writing space; the Globalising Universities and International Student Mobilities research team including Ho Kong Chong, Brenda Yeoh, Mayumi Ishikawa, Jean‐Charles Lagree, Nick Lewis, Eugene Liow, Ai‐hsuan Sandra Ma, Gil‐Sung Park and Ravinder Sidhu were wonderful to work with. I have also benefited from conversations with Tim Bunnell, Jørgen Carling, Yi’En Cheng, Ward Friesen, Elaine Ho, Shirlena Huang, Sergei Shubin, Peidong Yang, Junjia Ye and Sallie Yea. Thanks also to Dave Featherstone for fantastic editorial support and the reviewers who provided constructive commentary that has enhanced the book.
Financial support was generously provided by the Korea Foundation through Field Research Fellowships in 2009 and 2015, the Asia Research Institute and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore and the School of Environment at the University of Auckland.
Finally, a special thank you to the most important people in my life, Molly and SeungHee, who have always been supportive, provided advice and guided me through the challenges of research and writing.