Contents

pp v-v

Series Preface

pp vi-vi

List of Figures and Tables

pp vii-vii

List of Abbreviations

pp viii-viii

Glossary

pp ix-x

Notes on the Author

pp xi-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-20

Part I - Spatial Mobility to Asia: Moving Ahead by Moving Out

pp 21-22

1 - The EU Generation and Their Migration Motivations

pp 23-50

2 - Destination Singapore: The Dream of a Cosmopolis

pp 51-65

3 - Global City Tokyo: Japan’s Diversification from Within

pp 66-82

Part II - Organisational and Career Mobility: Seizing Security, Success and Self-Realisation

pp 83-84

4 - Singapore: Professionalising the Self

pp 85-102

5 - Tokyo: (Dis)Embedding in the Japanese Labour Market

pp 103-120

6 - Career Trajectories through an Intersectional Lens

pp 121-144

Part III - (Im)Mobility through Differentiated Embedding: The Ties That Bind

pp 145-146

7 - Immobility and Emplacement: Making the City Home

pp 147-166

8 - Belonging through Romantic Relationships

pp 167-185

Conclusion

pp 186-197

Appendix A - Positionality: Researching Migrants as a Migrant

pp 198-202

Appendix B - Demographic Profiles of Interlocutors

pp 203-211

References

pp 212-241

Index

pp 242-249