Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Maps, Figures and Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Mobile Practices and Regimes of Permissiveness
- 1 Illegality Rules: Chinese Migrant Workers Caught up in the Illegal but Licit Operations of Labour Migration Regimes
- 2 Contesting the State of Exception in the Afghan-Pakistani Marchlands
- 3 ‘Looking for a Life’: Rohingya Refugee Migration in the Post-Imperial Age
- 4 Smuggling Cultures in the Indonesia-Singapore Borderlands
- 5 Trade, Transnationalism and Ethnic Infighting: Borders of Authority in Northeast Borneo
- 6 Bamboo Baskets and Barricades: Gendered Landscapes at the India-Bangladesh Border
- 7 Moving between Kerala and Dubai: Women Domestic Workers, State Actors and the Misrecognition of Problems
- 8 Emigration of Female Domestic Workers from Kerala: Gender, State Policy and the Politics of Movement
- 9 Mainland Chinese Migrants in Taiwan, 1895-1945: The Drawbacks of Being Legal
- 10 ‘Playing Edge Ball’: Transnational Migration Brokerage in China
- Epilogue: Irregular Mobilities and Disjunctive Moralities
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Publications Series
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Maps, Figures and Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Mobile Practices and Regimes of Permissiveness
- 1 Illegality Rules: Chinese Migrant Workers Caught up in the Illegal but Licit Operations of Labour Migration Regimes
- 2 Contesting the State of Exception in the Afghan-Pakistani Marchlands
- 3 ‘Looking for a Life’: Rohingya Refugee Migration in the Post-Imperial Age
- 4 Smuggling Cultures in the Indonesia-Singapore Borderlands
- 5 Trade, Transnationalism and Ethnic Infighting: Borders of Authority in Northeast Borneo
- 6 Bamboo Baskets and Barricades: Gendered Landscapes at the India-Bangladesh Border
- 7 Moving between Kerala and Dubai: Women Domestic Workers, State Actors and the Misrecognition of Problems
- 8 Emigration of Female Domestic Workers from Kerala: Gender, State Policy and the Politics of Movement
- 9 Mainland Chinese Migrants in Taiwan, 1895-1945: The Drawbacks of Being Legal
- 10 ‘Playing Edge Ball’: Transnational Migration Brokerage in China
- Epilogue: Irregular Mobilities and Disjunctive Moralities
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Publications Series
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- Transnational Flows and Permissive PolitiesEthnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia, pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2012