TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,Sara Lizbeth AU - Mahdavi,Pardis TI - Migrant Encounters: Intimate Labor, the State, and Mobility Across Asia SN - 9780812291841 AV - JV6347 .M527 2016 PY - 2015///] CY - Philadelphia, Pa. : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Intercountry marriage KW - Asia KW - Labor mobility KW - Social mobility KW - Women foreign workers KW - Sociology of Migration KW - various N1 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291841 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812291841.jpg ER -