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'The rise of science in Asia is changing science and Asia. In this fascinating study of Asian scientists returning after being educated and working in the West, the dynamics of migrating scientists as agents of change, enabled by governments' investments into the Research Technology and Innovation systems, are untangled. It reveals their efforts at acculturation and the 'gender compromises' that many women scientists have to make, but above all their passion for science and its values.' Helga Nowotny, Professor em.Former President of the European Research Council 'Anju Mary Paul sheds unique light on the rise of bioscience in Asia by detailing Asian scientists' transnational migration trajectories. Combining precise delineations of these scientists' career patterns with sensitive interpretations about their aspirations and dilemmas, the book significantly advances social research on both science and migration.' Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford; Director of Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 'This volume uses the example of bioscientists' mobility into and through Asia to show how science is made in and through mobilities in a multipolar research world and through changing bodies. With its deep insights into changing patterns of mobility underpinned by strong theoretical and epistemological conceptualisations, this book will set the agenda for research in skilled mobility for years to come'. Parvati Raghuram, Professor of Geography and Migration, The Open University 'Asian Scientists on the Move is a compelling analysis of how scientific mobility and the emergence of an Asian scientist migration system is changing scientific cultures in Asia in general and aspiring scientists' careers in particular. It provides novel insights into how these dynamic processes are lifting select Asian countries from the periphery to the core of global science and in the process lifting the gaze of the region's scientific community with aspirations for Asia as the new locus of knowledge creation.' Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies 'In Anju Mary Paul's [book], we see the transnational social lives of the scientists … and come to understand the complex decisions that shape their scientific careers and migratory decisions … Paul brings her much-needed expertise in international migration and her skill as a rigorous empirical social scientist to the study of Asian scientists.' Larry Au, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal

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Anju Mary Paul is an international migration scholar with a research focus on emergent migration patterns to, from and within Asia. Her previous books include the award-winning Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) and Local Encounters in a Global City (Ethos Books 2017).

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