Description
Book Synopsis The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. In exploring how the migratory process unfolds in different stages of migrants’ lives, the chapters in this collected volume broaden perspectives on mobility, offering insight into the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.
Trade Review “Tangled Mobilities constitutes an original contribution both the-oretically and empirically to the bourgeoning (im)mobilities scholarship. Moreover, empirical cases in this volume provide a compelling argument that future research employing the framework of “tangled mobilities” should engage the emotional and temporal dimensions of mobility…The book will drive further scholarly discussions and pave the way for new research on yet understudied human mobilities.” • HAL Open Science, Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Table of Contents Acknowledgments
List of Tables
Introduction: Tangled Mobilities in the Age of Transnational Migration
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer
Chapter 1. Sexual Mobility, Migration, and Sexual Fields
James Farrer
Chapter 2. Cycles of Irregularity: The Intergenerational Impacts of Trafficking Policies on Migrant Families
Pardis Mahdavi
Chapter 3. Mobile Homes, Mobile Objects: Materiality and Mobility of Vietnamese-Belgian Couples
Angelie Marilla
Chapter 4. Tangled Intergenerational Mobilities: Maternal Migration and Japanese Filipino Children in Japan
Fiona-Katharina Seiger
Chapter 5. Emotions, Places, and Mobilities: The Affective Drives of the Migration and Settlement Aspirations among Highly Educated Migrants
Gracia Liu-Farrer
Chapter 6. Affects, Aspirations, and the Transformation of Personhood: A Case of Japanese-Pakistani Marriages through a Generational Lens
Masako Kudo
Chapter 7. Intergenerational Intimacies and Mobilities in Transnational families: The Experiences of Japanese-Filipino Children
Jocelyn Celero
Chapter 8. Truly Liberal and Immensely Oppressive? The Return Migration of Vietnamese Queer Migrants in Contemporary Japan
An Huy Tran
Chapter 9. Social Mobility and Labor Migration Under Recession: Exploring Generational Differences
Kumiko Kawashima
Chapter 10. Pursuing Respectability in Mobility: Marriage, Migration and Divorce of Filipino women in Belgium and the Netherlands
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Conclusion
Index
