1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778344003321

Autore

Spellman Paul N

Titolo

Captain J.A. Brooks [[electronic resource] ] : Texas Ranger / / Paul N. Spellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-20918-X

9786611209186

1-57441-390-2

1-4337-1007-2

1-4356-2313-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Frances B. Vick series ; ; no. 3

Disciplina

363.2092

B

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

half title; title page; contents; list of illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction; 1. Old Kentucky Home; 2. A Texas Ranger; 3. The Shoot-Outs; 4. The Garza War; 5. Prizefight in El Paso; 6. Deadly Streets of Cotulla; 7. Trouble in Colorado County; 8. The Ranger Force; 9. The Baker/De La Cerda Incident; 10. Batson Prairie Oil; 11. Keeping the Peace in the Valley; 12. Texas Legislator and County Judge; 13. Falfurrias, Brooks County; endnotes; bibliography; index

Sommario/riassunto

Tells the story of James Abijah Brooks (1855-1944), one of the four Great Captains in Texas Ranger history, others including Bill McDonald, John Hughes, and John Rogers. Brooks embodied the raucous era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American West.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818524703321

Titolo

Migrant encounters : intimate labor, the state, and mobility across Asia / / edited by Sara L. Friedman and Pardis Mahdavi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8122-9184-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/412095

Soggetti

Women immigrants - Asia

Women immigrants - Government policy - Asia

Women immigrants - Legal status, laws, etc - Asia

Women foreign workers - Asia

Intercountry marriage - Asia

Labor mobility - Asia

Social mobility - Asia

Asia Emigration and immigration Government policy

Asia Emigration and immigration Law and legislation

Asia Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Migrant Encounters -- 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 -- 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 -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter both the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies, some that leave deep marks on migrants' own life trajectories and others that produce fragmentary, uneven traces. With a focus on those who migrate to perform intimate labor—domestic, care, and sex work—or whose own intimate and familial lives are redefined through migration, marriage, and sometimes parenthood, this volume argues that such encounters transform both migrants and the states between which they move. Written by an international group of anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers, these essays offer richly detailed and insightful accounts of the intimate consequences of migration and the transformative effects of migrant-state encounters across Asia. Addressing a range of topics from the fate of children born to unmarried migrant mothers to the everyday negotiations of cross-border couples and migrant domestic workers, the contributors situate themselves at various points along the extensive migration routes that extend from northeast Asia all the way to the Gulf region. The authors draw on ethnographic research and policy analysis to illustrate the texture of migrants' interactions with state actors and forces. From a range of perspectives, they explore what these encounters teach us about migrant agency and the workings of state power in a region now rife with diverse forms of cross-border mobility. Contributors: Heng Leng Chee, Nicole Constable, Sara L. Friedman, Hsiao-Chuan Hsia, Mark Johnson, Hyun Mee Kim, Pardis Mahdavi, Filippo Osella, Nobue Suzuki, Christoph Wilcke, Brenda S. A. Yeoh.