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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- (Author, Editor), Friedman, Sara (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages): illustration
ISBN:9780812291841

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