International Manpower Flows and Foreign Investment in Asia

Abstract

This conference, organized jointly by Nihon University and the East-West Center (University of Hawaii) brought together researchers, policy-makers and a small number of representatives of transnational corporations from within and outside the Asian region to evaluate the relationship between the flows of human resources and capital around the region. The conference examined both traditional worker migration, the migration of high-level manpower, permanent migration movements and the clandestine migra? tion of illegal workers, an issue of growing concern in the region. In this context the location of the conference in Tokyo was most appropriate. The Asian-Pacific region includes some of the world's largest and most rapidly growing economies. The response of the region's interdependent economic system to pronounced spatial inequalities has been to set in motion a combination of international resource flows. These include the