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20 produkter
Guest People
Hakka Identity in China and Abroad
Av Nicole Constable, Nicole Constable
Häftad, 2005
608 kr
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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China.
Migrant Workers in Asia
Distant Divides, Intimate Connections
Häftad, 2011
502 kr
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This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and methodologically, this book challenges us …
Migrant Workers in Asia
Distant Divides, Intimate Connections
Inbunden, 2010
1521 kr
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This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and methodologically, this book challenges us …
Romance on a Global Stage
Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages
Häftad, 2003
307 kr
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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the …
Born Out of Place
Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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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 …
Born Out of Place
Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor
Häftad, 2014
371 kr
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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 …
Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits
A Hakka Community in Hong Kong
Häftad, 1994
500 kr
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How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka …
Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits
A Hakka Community in Hong Kong
E-bok, 1994
347 kr
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How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka …
Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits
A Hakka Community in Hong Kong
Inbunden, 1994
1156 kr
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How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka …
Passport Entanglements
Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations
Inbunden, 2022
847 kr
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Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads—political, historical, economic, global, and local—that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or “real but fake” passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how …
Passport Entanglements
Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations
Häftad, 2022
316 kr
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Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads—political, historical, economic, global, and local—that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or “real but fake” passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how …
Romance on a Global Stage
Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages
E-bok, 2003
520 kr
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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the …
Born Out of Place
Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor
E-bok, 2014
424 kr
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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 …
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition
Inbunden, 2007
1646 kr
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Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today …
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition
Häftad, 2007
360 kr
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Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today …
Cross-Border Marriages
Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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Illuminating how international marriages are negotiated, arranged, and experienced, Cross-Border Marriages is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of provinces, …
Cross-Border Marriages
Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia
Häftad, 2004
388 kr
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Illuminating how international marriages are negotiated, arranged, and experienced, Cross-Border Marriages is the first book to chart marital migrations involving women and men of diverse national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. The migrations studied here cross geographical borders of provinces, …
Migrant Workers in Asia
Distant Divides, Intimate Connections
E-bok, 2013
576 kr
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This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and methodologically, this book challenges us …
Migrant Workers in Asia
Distant Divides, Intimate Connections
E-bok, 2013
589 kr
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This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies range from Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, to Yemen, Israel, Jordan, and the UAE. Conceptually and methodologically, this book challenges us …
Born Out of Place : Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor
2014
314 kr
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