Grass is Always Greener?

This editedbook unpacks the nature of Central Asian migration to East Asia. Thisbookuses the case of Uzbekistan, the most populous country of Central Asia,and demonstrates the migration channels and adaptation strategies of migrants to the realities of Japan.What are the foreign policy engagements of Japanin Central Asia? How do they relate to the intensifying educational mobility and labour migration from Central Asia (in particular, Uzbekistan) to Japan? By answering these two questions, thisbookaims to detailthe social factors that play important roles in localizing foreign policy engagements and narrating them in terms easily understood bythepublic.