Migrant Encounters: Intimate Labor, the State, and Mobility Across Asia

by Pardis Mahdavi

Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter both the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies, some that leave deep marks on migrants' own life trajectories and others that produce fragmentary, uneven traces. With a focus on those who migrate to perform intimate labor--domestic, care, and sex work--or whose own intimate and familial lives are redefined through migration, marriage,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224754X
• ISBN13: 9780812247541
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"