Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia.

By:

Kalir, Barak [Author]

Contributor(s):

Sur, Malini

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789048515875
9048515874

Subject(s):

Migration, Internal -- Asia

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV2093 .T736 2012

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Subject: This important study 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 le.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities; 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 Borneo6 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 ContributorsBibliography; Index;

This important study 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 le.

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