Passport Entanglements

Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations

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Nicole Constable

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Hardback

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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 Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

November 15th, 2022

Author

Nicole Constable

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

6 illustrations, 1 table, 2 text boxes

Pages

260

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780520387980

Product ID

35786670

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