For a description of the two-day conference at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), see:
- Shinji Yamashita, Makito Minami, and David W. Haines, "Transnational Migration.” Anthropology News 48(6):37-38. 2007. (Available online)
- David W. Haines, Makito Minami, and Shinji Yamashita, “Transnational Migration in East Asia: Japan in Comparative Focus.” International Migration Review 41(4): 963-967. 2007. (Available online)
For the full, edited proceedings of that conference, see:
- Transnational Migration in East Asia: Japan in a Comparative Focus. Edited by Shinji Yamashita, Makito Minami, David W. Haines, and Jerry S. Eades. Osaka: Japan National Museum of Ethnology. Senri Ethnological Reports 77. 2008. (Publication information and online access to papers)
A short overview of the workshop held at the Institute of East Asian Studies at U.C. Berkeley in 2008, with support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, appears in the newsletter of the Association for Asian Studies. (Available online)
An edited volume that combines work from participants at several of the sessions was published in 2012 and republished in paperback in 2015: Wind over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context. Edited by David Haines, Keiko Yamanaka, and Shinji Yamashita. New York: Berghahn Books. (Publication information)
A more conceptual overview of the anthropological implications of the project in Migration in China and Asia: Experience and Policy (Zhang Jijiao and Howard Duncan, Eds.); Springer. 2014. (Publication information)