Passport Entanglements

Author : Nicole Constable
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520387996
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passport Entanglements written by Nicole Constable and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nicole Constable
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520387988
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passport Entanglements written by Nicole Constable and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable looks at how these instruments determine legal status and prescribe rights. The book explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy as they reinforce violent structures on often already vulnerable women. Constable finds that new biometric technologies and surveillance do not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy, but rather produce new vulnerabilities and reproduce old ones"--

Author : W. R. Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alias Oswald written by W. R. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781419658921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passport written by Jonathan Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2007-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Passport control your destiny or not? This is a based on a true story. A young girl almost get kidnapped by North Korean related organized crime.

Author : Malini Sur
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297768
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jungle Passports written by Malini Sur and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and Christian "ethnic minorities," suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and traitors. In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend against a background of violence, scarcity, and India's construction of one of the world's longest and most highly militarized border fences. Jungle Passports recasts established notions of citizenship and mobility along violent borders. Sur shows how the division of sovereignties and distinct regimes of mobility and citizenship push undocumented people to undertake perilous journeys across previously unrecognized borders every day. Paying close attention to the forces that shape the life-worlds of deportees, refugees, farmers, smugglers, migrants, bureaucrats, lawyers, clergy, and border troops, she reveals how reciprocity and kinship and the enforcement of state violence, illegality, and border infrastructures shape the margins of life and death. Combining years of ethnographic and archival fieldwork, her thoughtful and evocative book is a poignant testament to the force of life in our era of closed borders, insularity, and "illegal migration."

Author : Yves Gerem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883323516
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow Guide written by Yves Gerem and published by . This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour in and around the famous Russian capital, led by two savvy former residents -- Includes information on excursions just outside Moscow, including the homes of Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, and Pasternak; the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius; St. Petersburg; and the Winter Palace Few other imperial cities in the world conjure up as many images: the onion domes of the Kremlin and Red Square, the old churches and monasteries, the world-renowned Bolshoy Theater. Today's Moscow is a rapidly changing city, a thriving center for both business and tourism. This guide shows the old and new from the insiders' perspective. Here are several fascinating walking tours through the city, with signage translated to English from the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. From Pushkin's apartment to the Church of the Ascension, from the Kremlin Museums to the Tretyakov Art Gallery, from St. Basil's Cathedral to the peaceful Alexander's Gardens, the authors point out hundreds of must-see sights and activities inside Moscow's famous rings and boulevards. Equally helpful, they give sound advice on inexpensive ways to get around the large and sometimes confusing city. More than 100 restaurants are reviewed and recommended (including which to avoid), along with theaters, nightclubs, concerts, opera, and other cultural activities that include a number of options for children. Travel-planning chapters with information on health and medical facilities, and background on Russian culture, people, and history round out this thorough, expert look at modern-day Moscow.

Author : Patrick Bixby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976274
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book License to Travel written by Patrick Bixby and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: Peruse the passports of artists and intellectuals, writers and musicians, ancient messengers and modern migrants. See how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority. Encounter intimate stories of vulnerability and desire along with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics. Witness the authority that travel documents exercise over our movements and our emotions as we circulate around the globe. With unexpected discoveries at every turn, License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.

Author : Suzanne Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496223985
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Tourist written by Suzanne Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.

Author : Wallie A. Criswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passport to the World written by Wallie A. Criswell and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicole Constable
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520282027
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born Out of Place written by Nicole Constable and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.