This book 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.
This book 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.
Michiel Baas holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. He is currently an Associate Fellow of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and lecturer with the University of Amsterdam. He has conducted extensive research in the field of migration and transnationalism, particularly focusing on mobility between India, Singapore and Australia. More recent work also focuses on new middleclass professionals in urban India such, a topic which he studies through the lens of social and cultural mobility.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Conceptualizing the Asian Migrant's Body by Michiel Baas & Peidong YANG 1. 'Not a lesbian in Dubai not gay in Tehran': sexualities migrations and social movements across the Gulf by Pardis Mahdavi 2. Bodies at Work: Gendered Performance and Migrant Beer Sellers in Southeast Asia by Denise L. Spitzer PhD 3. Body Space and Migrant Ties: Migrant Domestic workers and Embodied resistances in Lebanon by Amrita Pande 4. The Day Off Policy. 'Reverse Domestication' and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore by Maria PLATT Brenda S.A. YEOH KHOO Choon Yen Grace BAEY and Theodora LAM 5. Embodying the good migrant in ageing: Negotiating positive subjectivities through paid work by Michelle G. Ong 6. Proper Conjunctions of Bodies: Chastity Age and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants' Families by Michele Ruth Gamburd 7. Border-crossing as sexual subjects: Interracial dating experience of young Chinese in New Zealand by Alex Yang Li 8. Managing Touch: The Racialized Dynamics of Intimacy in the Los Angeles Beauty Industry by Hareem Khan 9. Index
Introduction: Conceptualizing the Asian Migrant's Body by Michiel Baas & Peidong YANG 1. 'Not a lesbian in Dubai not gay in Tehran': sexualities migrations and social movements across the Gulf by Pardis Mahdavi 2. Bodies at Work: Gendered Performance and Migrant Beer Sellers in Southeast Asia by Denise L. Spitzer PhD 3. Body Space and Migrant Ties: Migrant Domestic workers and Embodied resistances in Lebanon by Amrita Pande 4. The Day Off Policy. 'Reverse Domestication' and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore by Maria PLATT Brenda S.A. YEOH KHOO Choon Yen Grace BAEY and Theodora LAM 5. Embodying the good migrant in ageing: Negotiating positive subjectivities through paid work by Michelle G. Ong 6. Proper Conjunctions of Bodies: Chastity Age and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants' Families by Michele Ruth Gamburd 7. Border-crossing as sexual subjects: Interracial dating experience of young Chinese in New Zealand by Alex Yang Li 8. Managing Touch: The Racialized Dynamics of Intimacy in the Los Angeles Beauty Industry by Hareem Khan 9. Index
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