Tangled mobilities [electronic book] : places, affects, and personhood across social spheres in Asian migration / Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer.
Contributor(s): Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion [editor]
| Liu-Farrer, Gracia [editor].
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BookSeries: Worlds in motion (Berghahn Books): 12Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781800735675 (hardback); 9781800736689 (e-Book).Subject(s): Asians -- Migrations | Asians -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions | Immigrants -- Asia -- Social conditions | Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 304.8095 Online resources: e-Book Summary: The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. In exploring how the migratory process unfolds in different stages of migrants' lives, the chapters in this collected volume broaden perspectives on mobility, offering insight into the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.
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The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. In exploring how the migratory process unfolds in different stages of migrants' lives, the chapters in this collected volume broaden perspectives on mobility, offering insight into the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. In exploring how the migratory process unfolds in different stages of migrants' lives, the chapters in this collected volume broaden perspectives on mobility, offering insight into the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Tables (p. vii)
- Acknowledgments (p. viii)
- Introduction Tangled Mobilities in the Age of Transnational Migration (p. 1)
- Chapter 1 Sexual Mobility, Migration, and Sexual Fields (p. 26)
- Chapter 2 Cycles of Irregularity: The Intergenerational Impacts of Trafficking Policies on Migrant Families (p. 48)
- Chapter 3 Mobile Homes, Mobile Objects: Materiality and Mobility of Vietnamese-Belgian Couples (p. 69)
- Chapter 4 Tangled Intergenerational Mobilities: Maternal Migration and Japanese-Filipino Children in Japan (p. 91)
- Chapter 5 Emotions, Places, and Mobilities: The Affective Drives of the Migration and Settlement Aspirations among Highly Educated Migrants (p. 113)
- Chapter 6 Affects, Aspirations, and the Transformation of Personhood: A Case of Japanese-Pakistani Marriages through a Generational Lens (p. 134)
- Chapter 7 Intergenerational Intimacies and Mobilities in Transnational Families: The Experiences of Japanese-Filipino Children (p. 157)
- Chapter 8 Truly Liberal and Immensely Oppressive? The Experiences of Returned Queer Vietnamese Migrants from Japan (p. 182)
- Chapter 9 Social Mobility and Labor Migration under Recession: Exploring Generational Differences among Japanese Migrants in China (p. 205)
- Chapter 10 Pursuing Respectability in Mobility: Marriage, Migration, and Divorce of Filipino Women in Belgium and the Netherlands (p. 227)
- Conclusion Empirical Insights, Policy Implications, and COVID-19 Influences (p. 248)
- Index (p. 257)
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Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is tenured research associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and senior lecturer (matresse d'enseignement) at the Universit libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume International Marriages and Marital Citizenship: Southeast Asian Women on the Move (Routledge, 2017).Gracia Liu-Farrer is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, and Director of Institute of Asian Migrations, Waseda University, Japan. She is the co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Asian Migration (2018, with Brenda Yeoh) and the author of Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethnonationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020).