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Transnational flows and permissive polities ethnographies of human mobilities in Asia / edited by Barak Kalir and Malini Sur.
| Other author | Kalir, Barak. |
| Other author | Sur, Malini, 1974- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012] |
| Description | 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Ethnographies of human mobilities in Asia |
| Series | IIAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 7 |
| Contents | Introduction : mobile practices and regimes of permissiveness / Barak Kalir, Malini Sur and Willem van Schendel -- Illegality rules : Chinese migrant workers caught up in the illegal but licit operations of labour migration regimes / Barak Kalir -- Contesting the state of exception in the Afghan-Pakistani marchlands / Oskar Verkaaik, Sarfraz Khan and Samina Rehman -- "Looking for a life" : Rohingya refugee migration in the post-imperial age / Diana Wong and Tan Pok Suan -- Smuggling cultures in the Indonesia-Singapore boderlands / Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons -- Trade, transnationalism and ethnic infighting : borders of authority in Northeast Borneo / Laurens Bakker and Jay Crain -- Bamboo baskets and barricades : gendered landscapes at the India-Bangladesh border / Malini Sur -- Moving between Kerala and Dubai : women domestic workers, state actors and the misrecognition of problems / Bindhulakshmi Pattadath and Annelies Moors -- Emigration of female domestic workers from Kerala : gender, state policy and the politics of movement / Praveena Kodoth and V.J. Varghese -- Mainland Chinese migrants in Taiwan, 1895-1945 : the drawbacks of being legal / Leo Douw -- "Playing edge ball" : transnational migration brokerage in China / Li Minghuan -- Epilogue : irregular mobilities and disjunctive moralities / Hastings Donnan -- About the editors and contributors. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012547035 |
| ISBN | 9789089644084 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9089644083 (pbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |