{"product_id":"passport-entanglements-protection-care-and-precarious-migrations-paperback","title":"Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicole Constable\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePassport Entanglements\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are few discussions specifically about passports among migrant workers, so this is a very welcome contribution and important investigation.--Gordon Mathews, author of \u003ci\u003eGhetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003ePassport Entanglements\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary and concrete intervention in critical studies of mobility and migration. Through rich ethnographic work and sharp analysis, Nicole Constable manages to bring together the urgent question of identification and its relation to hegemonic mobility regimes through the specific artifact of the passport and its extensive, complex, and entangled role within the everyday lives of Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong.\"--Mahmoud Keshavarz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicole Constable\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eRomance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and \"Mail Order\" Marriages\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBorn Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52630883172659,"sku":"9780520387997","price":69.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZDdPdzZpTWJxbnY0b2I3YVhwbVRrUT09.webp?v=1762167266","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/passport-entanglements-protection-care-and-precarious-migrations-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}