Migrant encounters : intimate labor, the state, and mobility across Asia
Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies. Contributions draw on original ethnographic work foregrounding migrants' intimate lives to argue that such encounters unpredictably transform m...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
2015
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| Schlagworte: | Women immigrants Women foreign workers Intercountry marriage Labor mobility Social mobility Asia--Emigration and immigration--Government policy Women immigrants-Government policy-Asia Women immigrants-Legal status, laws, etc.-Asia Women foreign workers-Asia Intercountry marriage-Asia mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies. Contributions draw on original ethnographic work foregrounding migrants' intimate lives to argue that such encounters unpredictably transform migrants and the states between which they move. Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Migrant Encounters -- PART I. THE INTIMATE LIVES OF INTIMATE LABORERS -- Chapter 1. Intimacies and Remittances: The Material Bases for Love and Intimate Labor Between Korean Men and Their Foreign Spouses in South Korea -- Chapter 2. Migration and the (Im)morality of Everyday Life -- PART II. MIGRATION AND THE NATIONAL FAMILY -- Chapter 3. Children of the Emir: Perverse Integration and Incorporation in the Gulf -- Chapter 4. Temporary Shelter in the Shadows: Migrant Mothers and Torture Claims in Hong Kong -- Chapter 5. Troubling Jus Sanguinis: The State, Law, and Citizenships of Japanese-Filipino Youth in Japan -- PART III. NEGOTIATING THE STATE -- Chapter 6. Caged in and Breaking Loose: Intimate Labor, the State, and Migrant Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and Other Arab Countries -- Chapter 7. Reproduction Crisis, Illegality, and Migrant Women Under Capitalist Globalization: The Case of Taiwan -- Chapter 8. Migrant Wives, Migrant Workers, and the Negotiation of (Il)legality in Singapore -- Chapter 9. Regulating Cross-Border Intimacy: Authenticity Paradigms and the Specter of Illegality Among Chinese Marital Immigrants to Taiwan -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780812291841 0812291840 9780812247541 081224754X |