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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, Sara, editor.

Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Asia.

Women immigrants.

Women immigrants--Government policy--Asia.

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

Women foreign workers--Asia.

Women foreign workers.

Intercountry marriage--Asia.

Intercountry marriage.

Labor mobility--Asia.

Labor mobility.

Social mobility--Asia.

Social mobility.

Asia--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Asia.

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

Asia--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812291841

0812291840

OCLC:

923132391