Migrant Encounters : Intimate Labor, the State, and Mobility Across Asia /

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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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Autores principales: Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- (Autor, Editor ), Friedman, Sara (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women immigrants > Legal status, laws, etc.
Women immigrants > Government policy.
Women immigrants.
Women foreign workers.
Social mobility.
Labor mobility.
Intercountry marriage.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration law.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Mobilite sociale > Asie.
Main-d'oeuvre > Mobilite > Asie.
Mariage interethnique > Asie.
Travailleuses etrangeres > Asie.
Immigrantes > Politique gouvernementale > Asie.
Immigrantes > Asie.
Social mobility > Asia.
Labor mobility > Asia.
Intercountry marriage > Asia.
Women foreign workers > Asia.
Women immigrants > Legal status, laws, etc. > Asia.
Women immigrants > Government policy > Asia.
Women immigrants > Asia.
Asia.
Asie > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Asie > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
Asia > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Asia > Emigration and immigration > Law and legislation.
Asia > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Migrant encounters 1 / Sara L. Friedman and Pardis Mahdavi
  • Intimacies and remittances : the material bases for love and intimate labor between Korean men and their foreign spouses in South Korea / Hyun Mee Kim
  • Migration and the (im)morality of everyday life / Filippo Osella
  • Children of the emir : perverse integration and incorporation in the Gulf / Pardis Mahdavi
  • Temporary shelter in the shadows : migrant mothers and torture claims in Hong Kong / Nicole Constable
  • Troubling jus sanguinis : the state, law, and citizenships of Japanese-Filipino youth in Japan / Nobue Suzuki
  • Caged in and breaking loose : intimate labor, the state, and migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries / Mark Johnson and Christoph Wilcke
  • Reproduction crisis, illegality, and migrant women under capitalist globalization : the case of Taiwan / Hsiao-Chuan Hsia
  • Migrant wives, migrant workers, and the negotiation of (il)legality in Singapore / Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Heng Leng Chee
  • Regulating cross-border intimacy : authenticity paradigms and the specter of illegality among Chinese marital immigrants to Taiwan / Sara L. Friedman.

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