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

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) : illustration 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 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 Analysis Anthropology Folklore Linguistics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Emigration and immigration law Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Intercountry marriage Labor mobility Social mobility Women foreign workers Women immigrants Women immigrants -- Government policy Women immigrants -- Legal status, laws, etc. SUBJECT Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Law and legislation Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Subject Asia Form Electronic book Author Friedman, Sara, editor, author Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- editor, author. ISBN 9780812291841 0812291840

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