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The Asian Migrant's Body : Emotion, Gender and Sexuality /

The Asian Migrant's Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baas, Michiel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:New mobilities in Asia.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conceptualizing the Asian migrant's body / Michiel Baas and Peidong Yang
  • 'Not a lesbian in Dubai, Not gay in Tehran' : sexualities, migrations, and social movements across the Gulf / Pardis Mahdavi
  • Bodies at work : gendered performance and migrant beer sellers in Southeast Asia / Denise L. Spitzer
  • Body, space, and migrant ties : migrant domestic workers and embodied resistances in Lebanon / Amrita Pande
  • The day off policy , 'reverse domestication', and emotional labour among Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore / Maria Platt, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Khoo Choon Yen, Grace Baey and Theodora Lam
  • Embodying the good migrant in ageing : negotiating positive subjectivities through paid work / Michelle G. Ong
  • Proper conjugation of bodies : chastity, age, and care work in Sri Lankan migrants' families / Michele Ruth Gamburd
  • Border-crossing as sexual subjects : interracial dating experience of young Chinese in New Zealand / Alex Yang Li
  • Managing touch : the racialized dynamics of intimacy in the Los Angeles beauty industry / Hareem Khan.