Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 9089644083 ISBN 13: 9789089644084

Casa editrice: Amsterdam Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

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 contributors analyze tensions between the letter of the law and social legitimation, territorial boundaries and commodity flows, state practices and migrant subjectivities, and labour brokerage and national and international organizations. This volume offers key insights for students of globalization and transnationality and policy relevance for development practitioners, governments, and NGOs.

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L'autore:

Barak Kalir is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He is Co-Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, and Director of the Master Programme in Contemporary Asian Studies.Malini Sur received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2012 and is a fellow at the University of Toronto in Fall 2012.Barak Kalir is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He is Co-Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, and Director of the Master Programme in Contemporary Asian Studies.Malini Sur received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2012 and is a fellow at the University of Toronto in Fall 2012.

Contenuti:

Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities - 2[-]Table of Contents - 6[-]List of Tables, Maps, Figures and Photographs - 8[-]Acknowledgements - 10[-]Introduction Mobile Practices and Regimes of Permissiveness - 12[-]1 Illegality Rules Chinese Migrant Workers Caught Up in the Illegal but Licit Operations of Labour Migration Regimes - 28[-]2 Contesting the State of Exception in the Afghan-Pakistani Marchlands - 56[-]3 'Looking for a Life' Rohingya Refugee Migration in the Post-Imperial Age - 76[-]4 Smuggling Cultures in the Indonesia-Singapore Borderlands - 92[-]5 Trade, Transnationalism and Ethnic Infighting Borders of Authority in Northeast Borneo - 110[-]6 Bamboo Baskets and Barricades Gendered Landscapes at the India-Bangladesh border - 128[-]7 Moving between Kerala and Dubai Women Domestic Workers, State Actors and the Misrecognition of Problems - 152[-]8 Emigration of Female Domestic Workers from Kerala Gender, State Policy and the Politics of Movement - 170[-]9 Mainland Chinese Migrants in Taiwan,1895-1945 The Drawbacks of Being Legal - 190[-]10 'Playing Edge Ball' Transnational Migration Brokerage in China - 208[-]Epilogue Irregular Mobilities and Disjunctive Moralities - 230[-]About the Editors and Contributors - 242[-]Bibliography - 248[-]Index - 262

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• Editore: Amsterdam Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9089644083
• ISBN 13: 9789089644084
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Redattore: Kalir Barak, Sur Malini