ABSTRACT
Up to the present Asian migration to Europe covers a minor share on the total of immigration to the European countries. However, while immigration from the Asian regions played a very limited role in most European countries during the first decades after World War II, this pattern changed in the 1990s. In this decade new patterns of immigration arose and stricter policies to challenge upcoming new mobility were implemented – the European migratory space transformed rapidly. With such changes the presence of Asian migration also became more prominent. In this book we’ll focus on South, South East and East Asian migrants. They stem from a range of countries such as Sri Lanka, India, China, Pakistan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. Despite the implementation of more restrictive immigration policies in the European Union, Asian immigration can be expected to continue in the future. As is shown in Figure 1.1, in many European countries Asians comprise quite a large proportion of the non-national population.
