Migrant encounters : intimate labor, the state, and mobility across Asia

Friedman, Sara, (editor,, author.). Mahdavi, Pardis, 1978- (editor,, author.).

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ISBN: 9780812247541
ISBN: 081224754X
Physical Description: print
viii, 245 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Migrant encounters / 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.