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The Asian Migrant's Body : Emotion, Gender and Sexuality / ed. by Michiel Baas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Mobilities in Asia ; 5Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048540976
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.8095
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. 'Not a Lesbian in Dubai, Not gay in Tehran' -- 2. Bodies at Work -- 3. Body, Space, and Migrant Ties -- 4. The Day Off Policy , 'Reverse Domestication', and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore -- 5. Embodying the Good Migrant in Ageing -- 6. Proper Conjugation of Bodies -- 7. Border-crossing as Sexual Subjects -- 8. Managing Touch -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: This edited volume brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, the volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard labour and (potentially) exploitative or abusive situations. It shows that migrants are not only on the receiving end where it concerns their bodies, nor are their bodies only utilized for their work as migrants: they also seek control over their bodies and to make them part of strategies to express themselves. The collective papers in this edited volume argue that the body itself is a primary site for understanding how migrants reflect on and experience their migration trajectories.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789048540976

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. 'Not a Lesbian in Dubai, Not gay in Tehran' -- 2. Bodies at Work -- 3. Body, Space, and Migrant Ties -- 4. The Day Off Policy , 'Reverse Domestication', and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore -- 5. Embodying the Good Migrant in Ageing -- 6. Proper Conjugation of Bodies -- 7. Border-crossing as Sexual Subjects -- 8. Managing Touch -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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This edited volume brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, the volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard labour and (potentially) exploitative or abusive situations. It shows that migrants are not only on the receiving end where it concerns their bodies, nor are their bodies only utilized for their work as migrants: they also seek control over their bodies and to make them part of strategies to express themselves. The collective papers in this edited volume argue that the body itself is a primary site for understanding how migrants reflect on and experience their migration trajectories.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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