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Migrant encounters : intimate labor, the state, and mobility across Asia

Title
Migrant encounters : intimate labor, the state, and mobility across Asia / edited by Sara L. Friedman and Pardis Mahdavi.
Publication
  • Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Book/TextUse in library JFE 16-5488Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
  • Friedman, Sara
  • Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978-
Description
viii, 245 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • 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
  • Migration
  • Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin
  • Asia > Emigration and immigration > Government policy
  • Asia > Emigration and immigration > Law and legislation
  • Asia > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
  • Asien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Migrant encounters 1 / Sara L. Friedman and Pardis Mahdavi -- Intimacies and remittances : the material bases for love and intimate labor between Korean men and their foreign spouses in South Korea / Hyun Mee Kim -- Migration and the (im)morality of everyday life / Filippo Osella -- Children of the emir : perverse integration and incorporation in the Gulf / Pardis Mahdavi -- Temporary shelter in the shadows : migrant mothers and torture claims in Hong Kong / Nicole Constable -- Troubling jus sanguinis : the state, law, and citizenships of Japanese-Filipino youth in Japan / Nobue Suzuki -- Caged in and breaking loose : intimate labor, the state, and migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries / Mark Johnson and Christoph Wilcke -- Reproduction crisis, illegality, and migrant women under capitalist globalization : the case of Taiwan / Hsiao-Chuan Hsia -- Migrant wives, migrant workers, and the negotiation of (il)legality in Singapore / Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Heng Leng Chee -- Regulating cross-border intimacy : authenticity paradigms and the specter of illegality among Chinese marital immigrants to Taiwan / Sara L. Friedman.
Call Number
JFE 16-5488
ISBN
  • 9780812247541
  • 081224754X
LCCN
2015005405
OCLC
904801146
Title
Migrant encounters : intimate labor, the state, and mobility across Asia / edited by Sara L. Friedman and Pardis Mahdavi.
Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Friedman, Sara, editor, author.
Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- editor, author.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-5488
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