Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities : : Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia / / ed. by Malini Sur, Barak Kalir.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bakker, Laurens,; Crain, Jay,; Donnan, Hastings,; Douw, Leo,; Ford, Michele,; Kalir, Barak,; Khan, Sarfraz,; Kodoth, Praveena,; Lyons, Lenore,; Minghuan, Li,; Moors, Annelies,; Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi,; Pok Suan, Tan,; Rehman, Samina,; Sur, Malini,; Varghese, V.J.,; Verkaaik, Oskar,; Wong, Diana,; van Schendel, Willem,
• HerausgeberIn: Kalir, Barak,; Sur, Malini,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: IIAS Publications ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

This book is a collection of ethnographies of transnational migration and border crossings in Asia. Interdisciplinary in scope, it addresses issues of mobility and Diaspora from various vantage points. Unique to this volume is an emphasis of studying globalisation from below, privileging the narratives and views of “people on the move” – or the transnational underclass – and their sense of belonging to places and communities. The collection is further distinguished by its focus on the sources of authority and the social configurations that are created in the intersections between legality and illegality across Asia. Though previous studies on transnational flows have deconstructed the notion of nation-states as having fixed political boundaries, and have engaged in spaces beyond the nation-states, seldom has an entire region, Asia, been privileged in one integrated volume. We emphasize hitherto marginalized debates that have significant policy relevance. Other than a serious academic interest from lecturers and students, we are confident that book will be of significant interest for development practitioners and NGOs.

Table of Contents

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