Description
Book SynopsisPassport Entanglements traces the many tangled threadspolitical, historical, economic, global, and localthat are tied to the existence of Indonesianaspalor real but fake passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate's attempts to regularize or clean up (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate ri
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Terms and Abbreviations
1. Passports and Ethnographic Entanglements
2. Ethnographer and Interlocutor
3. Care and Control
4. Real and Fake
5. State and Society
6. Migrant and Citizen
7. Temporalities and Scales
References
Index
