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

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/412095
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Asia Emigration and immigration Government policy; Asia Emigration and immigration Law and legislation; Asia Emigration and immigration Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics
• Persona (resp. second.): FriedmanSara; MahdaviPardis <1978->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Migrant encounters
• ISBN: 0-8122-9184-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818524703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II