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Notes
1 We (together with Michiel Baas) have begun this comparative work in two recent conferences: Migrants in Global Cities: Experiences from Asia, the Middle East and Europe held in October 2017 in Singapore (funded by a grant Alliance USPC NUS 2017-4, ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02), and Migrants In The Globalising City: Spaces, Places and Mobilities in Asia, Europe and the Middle East held in July 2018 in Paris (funded by a MERLION grant R-395-000-057-133). We are grateful to the institutions and grantors for supporting our collaborative research.