 | Migrant Encounters: Intimate Labor, the State, and Mobility Across Asia Subjects: Women immigrants -- Asia; Women immigrants -- Government policy -- Asia; Women immigrants -- Legal status laws etc. -- Asia; Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Law and legislation; Asia -- Emig; Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies. Contributions draw on original ethnographic work foregrounding migrants' intimate lives to argue that such encounters unpredictably transform migrants and the states between which they move. Sara L. Friedman is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. She is author of Exceptional States: Chinese Immigrants and Taiwanese Sovereignty and coeditor of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China. Pardis Mahdavi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College. She is author of Gridlock: Labor, Migration and Human Trafficking in Dubai and From Trafficking to Terror: Constructing a Global Social Problem. |
