Search results for ""Author Michiel Baas""
Springer Verlag, Singapore The Migration Industry in Asia: Brokerage, Gender
Book SynopsisThis pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and building on empirical data gathered through interactions and interviews with brokers, agents and other facilitators of migration, it examines the increasing co-dependence on, entanglement of and overlap between migrants, industry and state. It considers how for low-skilled migrants, migration is often not even possible without the involvement of the industry. As the opportunity to migrate has opened up to an ever-widening group of potential migrants, receiving nations have fine-tuned their migration infrastructure and programs to facilitate the inflow (and timely outflow) of the migrants it deems desirable. The migration industry plays an active role as mediator between migrants’ desires and states' requirements. This pivot focuses on what unites sending and receiving sides of migration, going beyond presupposed established networks, and offering a clear conceptualization of the contemporary migration industry in Asia. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Brokerage, Gender and Precarity in Asia’s Migration Industry.- Precarity, migration and brokerage in Indonesia: insights from ethnographic research in Indramayu.- Brokered (Il)legality: Co-Producing the Status of Migrants from Myanmar to Thailand.- Understanding the Cost of Migration: Facilitating Migration from India to Singapore and the Middle East.- Unauthorized Recruitment of Migrant Domestic Workers from India to the Middle East: Interest Conflicts, Patriarchal Nationalism and State Policy.- An Industry of Migration Frauds? State Policy, Migration Assemblages and Migration of Nurses from India.
£47.49
Westland Publications Limited Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New
Book SynopsisThe gyms of urban ''new India'' are intriguing spaces. While they cater largely to well-off clients, these shiny, modern institutions also hold the promise of upward mobility for the personal trainers who work there.By improving their English, ''upgrading'' their dressing style and developing a deeper understanding of the lives of their upmarket customers, they strategise to climb the middle-class ladder. Their lean, muscular bodieswhich Bollywood has set the tone for are crucial to this. Diverging from an older masculine ideal represented by pehlwani wrestlers, these bodies not only communicate (sexual) attractiveness, but also professionalism, control and even cosmopolitanism.
£11.99
Anthem Press Imagined Mobility: Migration and Transnationalism
Book SynopsisWith its close analysis of the phenomenon of the migration of Indian students to Australia, this book critically approaches the entanglement of the education industry with migration opportunities, and looks into the goals and aspirations of the Indian middle class. It discusses the overlaps of studies on migration and transnationalism, and raises questions on skilled migration.Trade Review‘Baas’s juggling between the big and the small, between the global transformations of higher education and the specific aspirations and life trajectories of his informants […] gives the book its texture and complexity. […] What makes ‘Imagined Mobilities’ a fine example of ethnographic writing is the modest and reflexive way in which it shows how [student-migrant] paths urge us to think beyond current ways of conceiving migration and transnationalism.’ —Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney, in ‘Asian Studies Review’Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Departure - Migration, Transnationalism and What Lies In-Between; First Semester - Of Leaving and Arriving: From and to a Culture of Migration; Second Semester - Some History Lessons as well as Learning the Hard Way; Summer School - A History of Students Going Overseas; Third Semester - Learning How to Work In-Between: Legal and Illegal Realms; Fourth Semester - Graduating as a Migrant; Arrival - Imagined Mobility; A New Departure - Curry Bashing and Alien Space Invaders; Data, Dilemmas and Doing Fieldwork the Ethical Way; Notes; References; Index
£63.00
Anthem Press Imagined Mobility
Book SynopsisWith its close analysis of the phenomenon of the migration of Indian students to Australia, this book critically approaches the entanglement of the education industry with migration opportunities, and looks into the goals and aspirations of the Indian middle class. It discusses the overlaps of studies on migration and transnationalism, and raises questions on skilled migration.Trade Review‘Baas’s juggling between the big and the small, between the global transformations of higher education and the specific aspirations and life trajectories of his informants […] gives the book its texture and complexity. […] What makes ‘Imagined Mobilities’ a fine example of ethnographic writing is the modest and reflexive way in which it shows how [student-migrant] paths urge us to think beyond current ways of conceiving migration and transnationalism.’ —Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney, in ‘Asian Studies Review’Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Departure - Migration, Transnationalism and What Lies In-Between; First Semester - Of Leaving and Arriving: From and to a Culture of Migration; Second Semester - Some History Lessons as well as Learning the Hard Way; Summer School - A History of Students Going Overseas; Third Semester - Learning How to Work In-Between: Legal and Illegal Realms; Fourth Semester - Graduating as a Migrant; Arrival - Imagined Mobility; A New Departure - Curry Bashing and Alien Space Invaders; Data, Dilemmas and Doing Fieldwork the Ethical Way; Notes; References; Index
£23.75
Amsterdam University Press The Asian Migrant's Body: Emotion, Gender and
Book SynopsisThe Asian Migrant’s Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, this edited volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard labour and (potentially) exploitative or abusive situations. It shows that migrants are not only on the receiving end where it concerns their bodies, nor are their bodies only utilized for their work as migrants: they also seek control over their bodies and to make them part of strategies to express themselves. The collective papers in The Asian Migrant’s Body argue that the body itself is a primary site for understanding how migrants reflect on and experience their migration trajectories.Table of Contents0. Introduction: Conceptualizing the Asian Migrant's Body, by Michiel Baas & Peidong YANG 1. 'Not a lesbian in Dubai, not gay in Tehran': sexualities, migrations, and social movements across the Gulf, by Pardis Mahdavi 2. Bodies at Work: Gendered Performance and Migrant Beer Sellers in Southeast Asia, by Denise L. Spitzer, PhD 3. Body, Space and Migrant Ties: Migrant Domestic workers and Embodied resistances in Lebanon, by Amrita Pande 4. The Day Off Policy. 'Reverse Domestication' and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore, by Maria PLATT, Brenda S.A. YEOH, KHOO Choon Yen, Grace BAEY and Theodora LAM 5. Embodying the good migrant in ageing: Negotiating positive subjectivities through paid work, by Michelle G. Ong 6. Proper Conjunctions of Bodies: Chastity, Age, and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants' Families, by Michele Ruth Gamburd 7. Border-crossing as sexual subjects: Interracial dating experience of young Chinese in New Zealand, by Alex Yang Li 8. Managing Touch: The Racialized Dynamics of Intimacy in the Los Angeles Beauty Industry, by Hareem Khan 9. Index
£101.65
Amsterdam University Press Transnational Migration and Asia: The Question of
Book SynopsisAs our increasingly globalized world alters the dynamics of migration, the ideas that migrants have about returning to their home countries have evolved as well. This diverse collection examines the changes and complexities of migration patterns in a range of Asian countries and cities, exploring how globalization and transnationalism shape and give meaning to the migrant experience. From Japanese-Brazilian transmigrants and Filipina students in Ireland to skilled migrants from India, the authors address migrants’ backgrounds, ambitions, and opportunities to offer intriguing insights and propose fascinating new questions about the lives of migrants in today’s world.Trade Review- "This edited volume's chapters are well crafted essays that provide a rich body of ethnographic and historical data." - Josephine Smart, Pacific AffairsTable of Contents1. Baas, Michiel: Introduction. Revisiting the Myth of Return in an Age of Transnationalism. Emotions, Rationale and In-between Spaces. 2. LeBaron van Baeyer, Sara: Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia: Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multi-Generational Meanings of Return. 3. Baas, Michiel: The Freedom to Stay & Leave: Indian Overseas Students' Paradoxical Relationship with Australian 'Permanent' Residency. 4. Bhatt, Amy. Reproducing Intimacies and Transnational Family Formations among highly skilled migrants from India. 5. Nititham, Diane: 'It's Still Home Home': Notions of the Homeland for Filipina Dependent Students in Ireland. 6. Nguyen, Cindy: Finding and Defining Social Purpose: Representations of Vietnamese Student Migration to the Colonial Metrople, 1910-1933 7. Kaibara, Helen: Looking Back to Move Forward: Japanese Elites and the Prominence of "Home" in Discourses of Settlement and Cultural Assimilation in the United States, 1890-1924. 8. Koh, Kris: The Lost Generation - Return of Second Generation Vi?t Ki?u to Sài Gòn. 9. Sahoo, Ajaya K. Migration, Return and Coping Patterns: A Study of Gulf Returnees in Andhra Pradesh, India. 10. Anwar, Nausheen. "The Bengali can return to his desh but the Burmi can't because he has no desh": Dilemmas of Desire and Belonging amongst the Burmese-Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants in Karachi, Pakistan
£96.00
