| Description |
xvii, 259 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index. |
| Contents |
A very tiny problem -- Ethnography and everyday life -- Women -- Men -- Sex and babies -- Wives and workers -- Asylum seekers and overstayers -- Migratory cycle of atonement. |
| Summary |
" Hong Kong is a meeting ground for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists and businessmen, and local residents. At the heart of this book are the stories and experiences of migrant mothers from Indonesia and the Philippines, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong born babies. Constable gives voice to the immigrant mothers in this Asian world city and, in the process, raises a serious question: do we regard immigrants as people, or just 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Women immigrants -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions.
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Women immigrants. |
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China -- Hong Kong. |
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Social conditions. |
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Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration.
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Women foreign workers -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions.
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Women foreign workers. |
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Women foreign workers -- Social conditions. |
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Women immigrants -- Social conditions. |
| Other Form: |
ebook version 9780520957770 |
| ISBN |
0520282019 (hardback) |
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0520282027 (paper) |
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0520957776 (ebook) |
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9780520282018 (hardback) |
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9780520282025 (paper) |
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9780520957770 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40023501843 |
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