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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, Sara, editor, author.

Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Asia.

Women immigrants.

Women immigrants--Government policy--Asia.

Women immigrants--Legal status, laws, etc--Asia.

Social mobility.

Labor mobility.

Intercountry marriage.

Women foreign workers.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Government policy.

Women immigrants--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women immigrants--Government policy.

Asia--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Asia.

Asia--Emigration and immigration--Law and legislation.

Asia--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Women foreign workers--Asia.

Intercountry marriage--Asia.

Labor mobility--Asia.

Social mobility--Asia.

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Summary:

Illuminating how international marriages are negotiated, arranged, and experienced, Cross-Border Marriages is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of provinces, rural-urban borders within nation-states, and international boundaries, including those of China, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, the United States, and Canada. Looking at assumptions about the connection between international marriages and poverty, opportunism, and women's mobility, the book draws attention to ideas about global patterns of inequality that are thought to pressure poor women to emigrate to richer countries, while simultaneously suggesting the limitations of such views. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812247541

081224754X

OCLC:

904801146