List of figures; List of tables; List of appendices; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction. Conceptualizing labour and capital mobilities in and out of Asia Preet S. Aulakh and Philip F. Kelly; Part I. From Capital to Labour Mobility: 2. Offshore spaces: multi-scalar bordering processes and the segmented mobilities of capital and labour in Asia Jana M. Kleibert; 3. Japanese multinational companies and the control of overseas investments: expatriates, foreign employees, and Japan's soft power Harald Conrad and Hendrik Meyer-Ohle; 4. Accumulation at the margins? Mineral brokerage and Chinese investments in Philippine mining Alvin A. Camba; 5. Soft power and transnationalism affecting capital and labour mobility: Chinese diaspora in Mexico and Peru Francisco J. Valderrey, Miguel A. Montoya and Mauricio Cervantes; 6. The spatial decoupling and recombination of capital and labour: understanding the new flows across the China-South East Asia borderlands Xiangming Chen, Na Fu, Sam Zhou and Gavin Xu; Part II. From Labour to Capital Mobility: 7. Skills development initiatives and labour migration in a secondary circuit of globalized production: evidence from the garment industry in India Asha Kuzhiparambil; 8. The counter geographies of globalization: women's labour migration along the Nepal-Persian Gulf migratory corridor Hari KC; 9. Migration and developmental capital in a Punjab village Rosy Hastir; 10. The production of nurses for global markets: tracing capital and labour circulation in and out of Asia Margaret Walton-Roberts; 11. The mobility-oligopoly nexus in Philippine property development Kenneth Cardenas; Contributors; Index.