Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations

by Nicole Constable

Book Overview

Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads--political, historical, economic, global, and local--that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or "real but fake" passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate's attempts to regularize or "clean up" (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520387996
• ISBN13: 9780520387997
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"