Umfang:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520957770
Inhalt:
Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong-born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Very Tiny Problem -- 2. Ethnography and Everyday Life -- 3. Women -- 4. Men -- 5. Sex and Babies -- 6. Wives and Workers -- 7. Asylum Seekers and Overstayers -- 8. The Migratory Cycle of Atonement -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Anmerkung:
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520282018
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520282018
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1639076
