Migrant Encounters : Intimate Labor, the State, and Mobility Across Asia / Sara Lizbeth Friedman, Pardis Mahdavi.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Migrant Encounters -- PART I. THE INTIMATE LIVES OF INTIMATE LABORERS -- Chapter 1. Intimacies and Remittances: The Material Bases for Love and Intimate Labor Between Korean Men and Their Foreign Spouses in South Korea -- Chapter 2. Migration and the (Im)morality of Everyday Life -- PART II. MIGRATION AND THE NATIONAL FAMILY -- Chapter 3. Children of the Emir: Perverse Integration and Incorporation in the Gulf -- Chapter 4. Temporary Shelter in the Shadows: Migrant Mothers and Torture Claims in Hong Kong -- Chapter 5. Troubling Jus Sanguinis: The State, Law, and Citizenships of Japanese- Filipino Youth in Japan -- PART III. NEGOTIATING THE STATE -- Chapter 6. Caged in and Breaking Loose: Intimate Labor, the State, and Migrant Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and Other Arab Countries -- Chapter 7. Reproduction Crisis, Illegality, and Migrant Women Under Capitalist Globalization: The Case of Taiwan -- Chapter 8. Migrant Wives, Migrant Workers, and the Negotiation of (Il)legality in Singapore -- Chapter 9. Regulating Cross- Border Intimacy: Authenticity Paradigms and the Specter of Illegality Among Chinese Marital Immigrants to Taiwan -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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