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Migrant Workers in Asia - Distant Divides, Intimate Connections (Paperback)
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Migrant Workers in Asia - Distant Divides, Intimate Connections (Paperback)
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This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of
South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other
parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and
Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and
methodologically, this book challenges us to move beyond
established regional divides and proposes new ways of mapping
inter-Asian connections. The authors view migrant workers within a
wider spatial context of intersecting groups and trajectories
through time. Keenly attentive to the importance of migrants of
diverse nationalities who have labored in multiple regions, this
book examines intimate connections and distant divides in the
social lives and politics of migrant workers across time and space.
Collectively, the authors propose new themes, new comparative
frameworks, and new methodologies for considering vastly different
degrees of social support structures and political activism, and
the varied meanings of citizenship and state responsibility in
sending and receiving countries. They highlight the importance of
formal institutions that shape and promote migratory labor,
advocacy for workers, or curtail workers rights, as well as the
social identities and cultural practices and beliefs that may be
linked to new inter-ethnic social and political affiliations that
traverse and also transform inter-Asian spaces and pathways to
mobility. This book was published as a special issue of Critical
Asian Studies.
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