Autorentext

Nicole Constable is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and author of several books, including Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages and Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor.

Zusammenfassung
Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate rights. Constable finds that new biometric technologies and surveillance do not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy, but rather reinforce violent structures on already vulnerable women by producing new vulnerabilities and reproducing old ones.
 

Inhalt
Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Terms and Abbreviations

1. Passports and Ethnographic Entanglements 
2. Ethnographer and Interlocutor
3. Care and Control
4. Real and Fake
5. State and Society
6. Migrant and Citizen
7. Temporalities and Scales

References
Index