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Tokyo illustrates a particularly interesting case of differential inclusions of transnational migrants
in urban spaces, as the novel turn in migration policy in coordination with urban economic devel-
opment has induced the arrival and diversification of migrant populations into the city. With the
recent historic opening of the country to lower-skilled labour migration as well as measures to
(re-) attract the global economy, thus incentivising transnational corporate professionals to relo-
cate to specific national economic zones within the city, Tokyo is in a new socio-spatial diversifica-
tion process. With a non-ethno-focal lens on transnational migration and focusing on upper-class
transnational corporate migrants, this article discusses diversification regarding the newer arrivals
of migrants who are differently included in the urban spaces as compared to older generations of
migrants. It delivers novel accounts of a diversifying transnational migrant groups’ socio-spatial pat-
terns within Tokyo, which illustrate the dynamics of differential inclusions resulting from the super-
diversification of urban societies. The article gives new insights into the socio-spatial diversification
dynamics of transnational urban spaces in a long-neglected but highly topical Asian arrival city, and
conceptually reflects such localised superdiversification of urban spaces on a global scale

在城市空间为跨国移民提供多元化包容方面，东京是一个特别有趣的案例，其与城市经济发展相协调的移民政策的新转变吸引了移民人口纷纷进入，形成了多元化的移民人口结构。日本最近历史性地放开对低技能劳动者的移民限制，并采取措施（重新）吸引全球经济，以此激励跨国公司专业人员移民到位于东京的一些特定的国家级经济区，因此，东京正在经历一个新的社会空间多元化进程。本文关注的是上层跨国公司移民，并不区分这些跨国移民的族裔。与老一辈移民相比，这些新移民融入了不同的城市空间。本文对这种多元化进行了讨论，对东京地区多元化的跨国移民群体的社会空间格局进行了全新的描述，说明了城市社群超级多元化所带来的多重包容性的新趋势。本文选取了一个长期被忽视的亚洲移民优选城市作为研究对象，对城市移民区的社会空间多元化趋势提出了新的见解，并从概念上反映了全球范围内城市空间的这种局部超级多元化现象。