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02697aam a2200385 i 4500 001 DAF08AB296FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230118010046 008 220310s2022 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022012143 020 $a 0520387996 020 $a 9780520387997 020 $a 0520387988 020 $a 9780520387980 035 $a (OCoLC)1338166148 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc-hk 050 00 $a KNQ9358.A44 $b C66 2022 100 1 $a Constable, Nicole, $e author. 245 10 $a Passport entanglements : $b protection, care, and precarious migrations / $c Nicole Constable. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xix, 239 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Passports and ethnographic entanglements -- Ethnographer and interlocutor : awkward moments and insights -- Care and control : entanglements of gendered migrant labor -- Real and fake : migration infrastructures and aspal passports -- State and society : passports, labor mobility, past, and present -- Migrant and citizen : activism and change -- Temporalities and scales. 520 $a "Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable looks at how these instruments determine legal status and prescribe rights. The book explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy as they reinforce violent structures on often already vulnerable women. Constable finds that new biometric technologies and surveillance do not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy, but rather produce new vulnerabilities and reproduce old ones"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Foreign workers, Indonesian $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z Hong Kong. $z Hong Kong. 650 0 $a Women foreign workers $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z Hong Kong. $z Hong Kong. 650 0 $a Passports $x Social aspects $z Hong Kong. $z Hong Kong. 650 7 $a Women foreign workers $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01734122 651 7 $a China $z Hong Kong. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01260796 776 08 $i Online version: $a Constable, Nicole. $t Passport entanglements $d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] $z 9780520388000 $w (DLC) 2022012144 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012626.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DAF08AB296FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search