Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction. Return and the Reordering of Transnational Mobility in Asia / Xiang Biao  1

1. To Return or Not to Return: The Changing Meaning of Mobility among Japanese Brazilians, 1908–2010 / Koji Sasaki  21

2. Soldier's Home: War, Migration, and Delayed Return in Postwar Japan / Mariko Asano Tamanoi  39

3. Guiqiao as Political Subjects in the Making of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1979 / Wang Cangbai  63

4. Transnational Encapsulation: Compulsory Return as a Labor-Migration Control in East Asia / Xiang Biao  83

5. Cambodians Go "Home": Forced Returns and Redisplacement Thirty Years after the American War in Indochina / Sylvia R. Cowan  100

6. Rescue, Return, in Place: Deportees, "Victims," and the Regulation of Indonesian Migration / Johan Lindquist  122

7. Return of the Global Indian: Software Professionals and the Worlding of Bangalore / Carol Upadhya  141

8. Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese / Melody Chia-Wen Lu and Shen Hyunjoon  162

Contributors  179

References  183

Index  205

Melody Chia-Wen Lu

Sylvia R. Cowan

Johan Lindquist

Koji Sasaki

Hyunjoon Shin

Mariko Asano Tamanoi

Carol Upadhya

Wang Cangbai

Biao Xiang

"This collection identifies an important patterning of migrations, one exerted by Asian nations pulling far-ranging emigrants and refugees toward home. Different chapters trace the exigency and enigma of return experienced by sojourners and soldiers in the 20th century, and expatriates and professionals in contemporary times. The book will be of interest to scholars working in anthropology, history, sociology, global studies, Asian studies, and critical geography."—Aihwa Ong, coeditor of Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate

"This important volume creates a link between two phenomena that are often treated as oppositional, nation and (trans)nation. Focusing on return migration, the contributors show that space is more than place; it is a method for understanding global movements. The chapters illustrate how generation, class, and often flexible categories (returnee, refugee, and worker) place institutions and the people that they claim to serve in a constantly negotiated relationship. The conversation between scholars of different disciplines will stimulate wide-ranging debate."—Jeffrey Lesser, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980

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