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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women immigrants--Asia.
Women immigrants--Government policy--Asia.
Women immigrants--Legal status, laws, etc.--Asia.
Asia--Government policy.--Government policy.
Asia--Law and legislation.--Law and legislation.
Asia--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Women foreign workers--Asia.
Intercountry marriage--Asia.
Labor mobility--Asia.
Social mobility--Asia.

Other Authors:

Friedman, Sara, author. author.
Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- author. author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Regulating cross-border intimacy : authenticity paradigms and the specter of illegality among Chinese marital immigrants to Taiwan / Sara L. Friedman. 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.

ISBN:

081224754X
9780812247541

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904801146

LCCN:

2015005405

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)