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Born out of place
2014
Overview
Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ asia
/ China
/ Cultural
/ Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
/ family
/ Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration
/ humanity
/ migrants
/ mobility
/ morality
/ refugees
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. bisacsh
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. bisacsh
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. bisacsh
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
/ tourists
/ traders
/ Women foreign workers -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
/ Women immigrants -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
ISBN
0520282027, 9780520282018, 0520282019, 9780520282025, 0520957776, 9780520957770
