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

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

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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 narrati...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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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

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