ABSTRACT
This chapter has two main functions to pull together the topics so ruthlessly separated by the classification of materials, notably, first, the harsh distinction between Southeast Asia, 'China', and Northeast Asia. Second, the strict separation of international migration from internal migration. The chapter focuses especially on those issues that cross the geographical frontiers of these three macro regions. The chapter takes a glance, albeit a highly speculative one, into the future and how the trends already in play and those are likely to emerge in the near future, going to alter the picture of migrations presented. It has provided the bounded space within which internal migration flows have been studied. The emphasis is on the tendency for the parts of East Asia to become increasingly interconnected through their migration flows, but there is one part of the changing reality that does not conform to this picture.
