{"product_id":"migrant-encounters-9780812247541","title":"Migrant Encounters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMigrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies. Contributions draw on original ethnographic work foregrounding migrants' intimate lives to argue that such encounters unpredictably transform migrants and the states between which they move.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The edited volume by Sara L. Friedman and Pardis Mahdavi provides rich and nuanced accounts of the intricate and often precarious circumstances fallen into by many migrant women. It also sheds light on the unusual but innovative measures they come up with to counteract the difficulties they meet in foreign lands.\" * \u003ci\u003ePoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Migrant Encounters\u003cbr\u003e —Sara L. Friedman and Pardis Mahdavi\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE INTIMATE LIVES OF INTIMATE LABORERS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Intimacies and Remittances: The Material Bases for Love and Intimate Labor Between Korean Men and Their Foreign Spouses in South Korea\u003cbr\u003e —Hyun Mee Kim\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Migration and the (Im)morality of Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e —Filippo Osella\u003cbr\u003e PART II. MIGRATION AND THE NATIONAL FAMILY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Children of the Emir: Perverse Integration and Incorporation in the Gulf\u003cbr\u003e —Pardis Mahdavi\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Temporary Shelter in the Shadows: Migrant Mothers and Torture Claims in Hong Kong\u003cbr\u003e —Nicole Constable\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Troubling Jus Sanguinis: The State, Law, and Citizenships of Japanese-Filipino Youth in Japan\u003cbr\u003e —Nobue Suzuki\u003cbr\u003e PART III. NEGOTIATING THE STATE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Caged in and Breaking Loose: Intimate Labor, the State, and Migrant Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and Other Arab Countries\u003cbr\u003e —Mark Johnson and Christoph Wilcke\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Reproduction Crisis, Illegality, and Migrant Women Under Capitalist Globalization: The Case of Taiwan\u003cbr\u003e —Hsiao-Chuan Hsia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Migrant Wives, Migrant Workers, and the Negotiation of (Il)legality in Singapore\u003cbr\u003e —Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Heng Leng Chee\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Regulating Cross-Border Intimacy: Authenticity Paradigms and the Specter of Illegality Among Chinese Marital Immigrants to Taiwan\u003cbr\u003e —Sara L. Friedman\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405726458199,"sku":"9780812247541","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/migrant-encounters-9780812247541","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}