This introduction to the special issue introduces the contributors' articles and identifies key
themes relating to how increased transnational mobility has affected urbanisation processes …

Wealth is an important measure of advantage and disadvantage, especially in a global
context of wage stagnation, growing debt, and rising inequality. We see research on the …

In the early twentieth century, Chinatowns in the West were ghettoes for Chinese immigrants
who were marginalized and considered 'other'by the dominant society. In Western eyes …

Gentrification theory blames the widening and transnationalisation of the phenomenon on
the global commodification of housing and the emergence of a 'planetary rent gap'. This …

In response to Indonesia's 1998 riots, which included mass rape of Chinese-Indonesian
women, many Chinese-Indonesian families sent their daughters out of country to try and …

This study aimed to examine how Japanese urban problems have arisen during the post-
growth period and why administrative strategies have failed in dealing with them. A rise in …

Toronto and Vancouver have been struggling with intense housing affordability problems in
recent years. This article looks at one important factor in these affordability challenges …

Abstract In the United States and across Europe, research on second—and multiple—
homeownership for vacation and leisure use has traditionally analysed the in-migration of …

This paper fills a lacuna in the literature on gender, work, and migration by exploring the
migration experience and familial arrangements of middle-class Mainland Chinese migrant …

Between 2011 and 2014 in Portugal, a neoliberal turn of fiscal and urban policies emerged,
driven by post-crisis capitalist international austerity intervention. Both national and urban …