Transnational flows and permissive polities ethnographies of human mobilities in Asia
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities examines how legality and other sources of authority intersect in the regulation of human mobility. The book focuses on the ethnographic exploration of the experiences and views of mobile subjects in the vast and rapidly changing continent of Asia. The con...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | IIAS publications series. Edited volumes ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419811406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : mobile practices and regimes of permissiveness / Barak Kalir, Malini Sur and Willem van Schendel
- Illegality rules : Chinese migrant workers caught up in the illegal but licit operations of labour migration regimes / Barak Kalir
- Contesting the state of exception in the Afghan-Pakistani marchlands / Oskar Verkaaik, Sarfraz Khan and Samina Rehman
- "Looking for a life" : Rohingya refugee migration in the post-imperial age / Diana Wong and Tan Pok Suan
- Smuggling cultures in the Indonesia-Singapore boderlands / Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons
- Trade, transnationalism and ethnic infighting : borders of authority in Northeast Borneo / Laurens Bakker and Jay Crain
- Bamboo baskets and barricades : gendered landscapes at the India-Bangladesh border / Malini Sur
- Moving between Kerala and Dubai : women domestic workers, state actors and the misrecognition of problems / Bindhulakshmi Pattadath and Annelies Moors
- Emigration of female domestic workers from Kerala : gender, state policy and the politics of movement / Praveena Kodoth and V.J. Varghese
- Mainland Chinese migrants in Taiwan, 1895-1945 : the drawbacks of being legal / Leo Douw
- "Playing edge ball" : transnational migration brokerage in China / Li Minghuan
- Epilogue : irregular mobilities and disjunctive moralities / Hastings Donnan
- About the editors and contributors.
