Born out of place : migrant mothers and the politics of international labor / / Nicole Constable
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| Autore: |
Constable Nicole
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| Titolo: |
Born out of place : migrant mothers and the politics of international labor / / Nicole Constable
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.874/308864095125 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women immigrants - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions |
| Women foreign workers - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions | |
| Emigration and immigration - Social aspects | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Hong Kong (China) Emigration and immigration |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Very Tiny Problem -- 2. Ethnography and Everyday Life -- 3. Women -- 4. Men -- 5. Sex and Babies -- 6. Wives and Workers -- 7. Asylum Seekers and Overstayers -- 8. The Migratory Cycle of Atonement -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong-born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Born out of place |
| ISBN: | 1-306-46333-5 |
| 0-520-95777-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463980103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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