UID:
almafu_9959235889102883
Format:
1 online resource (278 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-306-46333-5
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0-520-95777-6
Content:
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.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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1. A Very Tiny Problem --
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2. Ethnography and Everyday Life --
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3. Women --
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4. Men --
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5. Sex and Babies --
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6. Wives and Workers --
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7. Asylum Seekers and Overstayers --
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8. The Migratory Cycle of Atonement --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-28202-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-28201-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1525/9780520957770
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1639076
