Includes chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia

Editors are well known (particularly Brenda Yeoh) and contains contributions from some very respected academics such as Stephen Castles and Ien Ang

Topic is cutting edge, there is no direct competition and a lot of interest in transnationalism at the moment

The chapters are strongly interdisciplinary (anthropology, politics, geography, sociology and Asian studies).