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Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration

Author : Carlos M. Piocos III
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000345292

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This book explores the politics of gendered labor migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and perspectives of Indonesian and Filipina women presented in films, fiction, and performance to show how the emotionality of these texts contribute to the emergence and vitality of women’s social movements in Southeast Asia. By placing literary and filmic narratives of Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore within existing conversations concerning migration policies, the book offers an innovative approach towards examining contemporary issues of Asian migration. Furthermore, through rich ethnographic accounts, the book unpacks themes of belonging and displacement, shame and desire, victimhood and resistance, sacrifice, and grief to show that the stories of Filipina and Indonesian migrant women don't just depict their everyday lives and practices but also reveal how they mediate and make sense of the fraught politics of gendered labor diaspora and globalization. Contributing to the "affective turn" of feminist and transnational scholarship, the book draws insight from the importance and centrality of affect, emotions, and feelings in shaping discourses on women’s subjectivity, labor, and mobility. In addition, the book demonstrates the issues of vulnerability and agency inherent in debates on social exclusion, human rights, development, and nation-building in Southeast Asia. Offering an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to analyses of Asian migration, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Studies, literary and cultural studies, film studies, gender and women’s studies, and migration studies.

On Being Moved

Author : Carlos III Monteza Piocos
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Women foreign workers
ISBN : 1361040920

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This dissertation, "On Being Moved: Affect and Politics in Women's Narratives of Southeast Asian Migration" by Carlos III Monteza, Piocos, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This dissertation studies the complex interplay of emotions and discourses in stories of Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore. Rather than conceptualizing affect as either symptom of subjection or sign of agency in migrant women's subjectivity, my research project examines how emotions expressed in fiction and films of Filipina and Indonesian migrant women not only reflect but are also responses to the underlying conditions that describe and prescribe their role in their homeland and host countries. This research project intervenes into migration debates through emotion and affectivity studies by looking at affect as expressions of condition and capacity. In my study, the emotions in these literary and visual narratives illustrate not just how migrant women are affected but also how they affect prevailing discourses on labor diaspora. I frame my discussion through two concepts of affectivity: Raymond William's structure of feelings to explain how their emotions are produced by structural conditions of migration and Sara Ahmed's affective economy to examine how these feelings are reproduced and circulated as discourses to support or challenge those structural conditions. Using this framework, my dissertation tracks the tropes of displacement, suffering, sacrifice and grief in literary and visual narratives of Filipina and Indonesian migrant women to demonstrate how emotions both sustain and subvert national, cultural and gendered discourses that interpellate their roles as migrant women workers. The first chapter problematizes the inherent contradictions of social exclusion in intimate women's work inside private and public spaces of their host countries through the politics of hospitality in my reading of two films set in Singapore and Hong Kong, Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo (2013) and Lola Amarla's Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park ('Sunday Morning at Victoria Park, ' 2010). The second chapter focuses on the affects of shame and patience to discuss the politics of suffering in two short story collections of Indonesian domestic workers: Forum Lingkar Pena Hong Kong's Menaklukkan Ketakutan di Ranah Rantau ('Overcoming Fear in Foreign Shores, ' 2013) and BMI Singapura's Ketika Pena BMI Menari ('When Indonesian Migrant Workers' Pens Dance, ' 2012). The third chapter analyzes the notion of sacrifice as a form of affective economy by looking at how ideas of suffering for the greater good is central to the Philippine state's rhetoric of migration for development. I analyze how the discourse of sacrifice is reproduced, circulated and challenged in two films on Filipina domestic workers: Rory Quintos' Anak ('Child, ' 2000) and Mes de Guzman's Balikbayan Box (2006). In the last chapter, I examine the political effects of mourning over migrant women's death in my reading of three texts: Joel Lamangan's The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995), Jose Dalisay's Soledad's Sister (2008) and Rida Fitria's Sebongkah Tanah Retak ('A Lump of Cracked Land, ' 2010). These film and novels demonstrate how social activism borne out of grief not only transforms national community and but also transcends national boundaries among Filipina and Indonesian migrant women. Subjects: Women foreign workers - China - Hong Kong Women household employees - China - Hong Kong Women household employees - Singapore Women foreign workers - Singapor

ON BEING MOVED

Author : Carlos III Monteza Piocos
Publisher : Open Dissertation Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1361040947

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ON BEING MOVED by Carlos III Monteza Piocos Pdf

This dissertation, "On Being Moved: Affect and Politics in Women's Narratives of Southeast Asian Migration" by Carlos III Monteza, Piocos, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This dissertation studies the complex interplay of emotions and discourses in stories of Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore. Rather than conceptualizing affect as either symptom of subjection or sign of agency in migrant women's subjectivity, my research project examines how emotions expressed in fiction and films of Filipina and Indonesian migrant women not only reflect but are also responses to the underlying conditions that describe and prescribe their role in their homeland and host countries. This research project intervenes into migration debates through emotion and affectivity studies by looking at affect as expressions of condition and capacity. In my study, the emotions in these literary and visual narratives illustrate not just how migrant women are affected but also how they affect prevailing discourses on labor diaspora. I frame my discussion through two concepts of affectivity: Raymond William's structure of feelings to explain how their emotions are produced by structural conditions of migration and Sara Ahmed's affective economy to examine how these feelings are reproduced and circulated as discourses to support or challenge those structural conditions. Using this framework, my dissertation tracks the tropes of displacement, suffering, sacrifice and grief in literary and visual narratives of Filipina and Indonesian migrant women to demonstrate how emotions both sustain and subvert national, cultural and gendered discourses that interpellate their roles as migrant women workers. The first chapter problematizes the inherent contradictions of social exclusion in intimate women's work inside private and public spaces of their host countries through the politics of hospitality in my reading of two films set in Singapore and Hong Kong, Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo (2013) and Lola Amarla's Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park ('Sunday Morning at Victoria Park, ' 2010). The second chapter focuses on the affects of shame and patience to discuss the politics of suffering in two short story collections of Indonesian domestic workers: Forum Lingkar Pena Hong Kong's Menaklukkan Ketakutan di Ranah Rantau ('Overcoming Fear in Foreign Shores, ' 2013) and BMI Singapura's Ketika Pena BMI Menari ('When Indonesian Migrant Workers' Pens Dance, ' 2012). The third chapter analyzes the notion of sacrifice as a form of affective economy by looking at how ideas of suffering for the greater good is central to the Philippine state's rhetoric of migration for development. I analyze how the discourse of sacrifice is reproduced, circulated and challenged in two films on Filipina domestic workers: Rory Quintos' Anak ('Child, ' 2000) and Mes de Guzman's Balikbayan Box (2006). In the last chapter, I examine the political effects of mourning over migrant women's death in my reading of three texts: Joel Lamangan's The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995), Jose Dalisay's Soledad's Sister (2008) and Rida Fitria's Sebongkah Tanah Retak ('A Lump of Cracked Land, ' 2010). These film and novels demonstrate how social activism borne out of grief not only transforms national community and but also transcends national boundaries among Filipina and Indonesian migrant women. Subjects: Women foreign workers - China - Hong Kong Women household employees - China - Hong Kong Women household employees - Singapore Women foreign workers - Singapor

The Age of Asian Migration

Author : Yuk Wah Chan,Heidi Fung,Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443881937

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The Age of Asian Migration by Yuk Wah Chan,Heidi Fung,Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz Pdf

This book represents a follow-up to 2014’s The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity, and Susceptibility Volume 1. Both volumes are the result of the conference on Asian Migration and Diasporas organised by the Southeast Asia Research Centre and held at the City University of Hong Kong in 2013. Despite numerous studies on Asian migration issues having been conducted over the past few decades, no comprehensive account of Asian migrations, especially those taking place since the end of the Second World War exists. While the first volume provided a discussion of a wide spectrum of topics concerning Asian migration – from historical perspectives to updated trends – this volume is organised around three major themes, namely “Women and Migration”, “Refugee and Borderland Migration”, and “Remittances and Migration Economics”. The book contains new migration stories that provide fresh insights into human movements, and enhances academic discussions of migration through case studies from Asia.

Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia

Author : Sverre Molland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000430745

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Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia by Sverre Molland Pdf

The book investigates how the United Nations, governments, and aid agencies mobilise and instrumentalise migration policies and programmes through a discourse of safe migration. Since the early 2000s, numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN agencies, and governments have warmed to the concept of safe migration, often within a context of anti-trafficking interventions. Yet, both the policy-enthusiasm for safety, as well as how safe migration comes into being through policies and programs remain unexplored. Based on seven years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Mekong region, this is the first book that traces the emergence of safe migration, why certain aid actors gravitate towards the concept, as well as how safe migration policies and programmes unfold through aid agencies and government bodies. The book argues that safe migration is best understood as brokered safety. Although safe migration policy interventions attempt to formalize pre-emptive and protective measures to enhance labour migrants’ well-being, the book shows through vivid ethnographic details how formal migration assistance in itself depends on – and produces – informal asnd mediated practices. The book offers unprecedented insights into what safe migration policies look like in practice. It is an innovate contribution to contemporary theorizing of contemporary forms of migration governance and will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and human geographers working within the fields of Migration studies, Development Studies, as well as Southeast Asian and Global Studies. Chapters 1, 4, 5 and 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003185734

International Migration in Southeast Asia

Author : Aris Ananta,Evi Nurvidya Arifin
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9812302786

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Southeast Asian Migration

Author : Khatharya Um
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : OCLC:933056346

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Southeast Asian Migration by Khatharya Um Pdf

"Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America, and Europe that highlight these trends and perspectives on Southeast Asian migration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach--with contributions from those in sociology, political science, anthropology, and history--and anchored in empirical case studies from various Southeast Asian countries, it extends the scope of inquiry beyond the economic concerns of migration, and beyond a single country source or destination, and disciplinary focus. Analytic focus is placed on the forces and factors that shape migration trajectories and migrant incorporation experiences in Asia and Europe; the impact of migration and immigration status on individuals, families, and institutions, on questions of equity, inclusion, and identity; and the triangulated relationships between diasporic communities, the sending and receiving countries. In examining the complex and creative negotiations that immigrants engage locally and transnationally in their daily lives, it foregrounds immigrant resilience in the strategies they adopt not only to survive but thrive in displacement"--.

Southeast Asian Lives

Author : Roxana Waterson
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9971693445

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Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures

Author : Grace V. S. Chin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000363326

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Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures by Grace V. S. Chin Pdf

Highlighting the interconnections between Southeast Asia and the world through literature, this book calls for a different reading approach to the literatures of Southeast Asia by using translation as the main conceptual framework in the analyses and interpretation of the texts, languages, and cultures of the following countries: Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, and the Philippines. Through the theme of “translational politics,” the contributors critically examine not only the linguistic properties but also the metaphoric, symbolic, and semiotic meanings, images, and representations that have been translated across societies and cultures through local and global consumption and circulation of literature, (new) media, and other cultural forms. Using translation to unlock and decode multiple, different languages, narratives, histories, and worldviews emerging from Southeast Asian geo-literary contexts, this book builds on current scholarship and offers new approaches to the contestations of race, gender, and sexuality in literature, which often involve the politically charged discourses of identity, language, and representation. At the same time, this book provides new perspectives and future directions in the study of Southeast Asian literatures. Exploring a range of literary and cultural products, including written texts, performance, and cinema, this volume will be a key resource for students and researchers interested in translation and cultural studies, comparative and world literature, and Southeast Asian studies.

The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia

Author : Michele Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108606295

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The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia by Michele Ford Pdf

This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region's key destination countries. It begins by providing an historically situated discussion of bordering processes within the region, examining evolving historical conceptions of power and sovereignty, and processes of bordering in colonial and post-colonial times. It then turns to the political, environmental, and economic drivers of contemporary cross-border mobility before examining governments' efforts to manage different kinds of border-crossers and the tensions that these efforts give rise to. Having discussed the politics of cross-border mobility in host communities, the Element returns to the question of why consideration of bordering practices and cross-border mobility is necessary in understanding contemporary Southeast Asia.

Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts

Author : Ah Eng Lai,Francis Leo Collins,Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814380478

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Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts by Ah Eng Lai,Francis Leo Collins,Brenda S. A. Yeoh Pdf

This volume makes an important and unique contribution to scholarly understandings of migration and diversity through its focus on Asian contexts. Current scholarship and literature on processes of migration and the consequences of diversity is heavily concentrated on Western contexts and their concerns with "multiculturalism," "integration," "rights and responsibilities," "social cohesion," "social inclusion," and "cosmopolitanism." In contrast, there has been relatively little attention given to migration and growing diversity in Asian contexts which are constituted by highly distinct and varied histories, cultures, geographies, and political economies. This book fills this significant gap in the literature on migration studies with a concentrated focus on communities, cities and countries in the Asian region that are experiencing increased levels of population mobility and subsequent diversity. Not only does it offer analyses of the policies and processes of migration, it also addresses the outcomes and implications of migration and diversity - these include a focus on multiculturalism and citizenship in the Asian region, the emerging complex forms of governance in response to increased diversity, discussions of different settlement experiences, and the practices of everyday life and encounters in increasingly diverse locales.

Southeast Asian Migration

Author : Khatharya Um,Sofia Gaspar
Publisher : Sussex Library of Asian & Asian American Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 1789760046

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Southeast Asian Migration by Khatharya Um,Sofia Gaspar Pdf

Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war, engenders personal, familial, and spiritual dislocation, and provokes a questioning of identity and belonging. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America, and Europe that highlight these trends and perspectives on Southeast Asian migration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach -- with contributions from sociology, political science, anthropology, and history -- and anchored in empirical case studies from various Southeast Asian countries, it extends the scope of inquiry beyond the economic concerns of migration, and beyond a single country source or destination, and disciplinary focus. Analytic focus is placed on the forces and factors that shape migration trajectories and migrant incorporation experiences in Asia and Europe; the impact of migration and immigration status on individuals, families, and institutions, on questions of equity, inclusion, and identity; and the triangulated relationships between diasporic communities, the sending and receiving countries. Of particular importance is the scholarly attention to lesser known populations and issues such as Vietnamese in Poland, children and the 1.5 generation immigrants, health and mental consequences of state sponsored violence and protracted encampment, ethnic media, and the challenges of both transnational parenting and family reunification. In examining the complex and creative negotiations that immigrants engage locally and transnationally in their daily lives, it foregrounds immigrant resilience in the strategies they adopt not only to survive but thrive in displacement.

The Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia

Author : Sébastien Moretti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000543735

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The Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia by Sébastien Moretti Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed analysis of refugee protection in Southeast Asia from an international law perspective. It examines both the legal and policy frameworks pertaining to the protection of refugees in the region as well as the countries’ response to refugee movements from the Indochinese refugee crisis in the mid-1970s to the most recent developments. It covers important aspects of refugee protection, such as access to territory, non-refoulement, the treatment of refugees, the concept of refugee as applied in the region, burden-sharing and durable solutions to the plight of refugees. The analysis focuses specifically on the main countries of asylum within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that are not parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention, namely Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Using an international law perspective based on the doctrine of the ‘two elements’ (practice and opinio juris), the author argues that these states have long recognized that people fleeing persecution, armed conflict and generalized violence, namely refugees, should be protected. This in turn demonstrates that they recognize the existence and relevance of the international refugee regime despite their refusal to accede to the Refugee Convention. Offering a different perspective on the links between international refugee law and refugee protection in Southeast Asia, this book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the fields of international relations, international refugee law, international human rights law, migration governance and Southeast Asian Studies.

The Minority Muslim Experience in Mainland Southeast Asia

Author : John Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000415346

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The Minority Muslim Experience in Mainland Southeast Asia by John Goodman Pdf

This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus and are illiberal and non-democratic in nature. Focusing on two major Muslim communities in Southeast Asia, both of whom live as minorities in societies that are not democratic and have a history of hostility and repression towards non-conforming ideas, the book explains their circumstances, the choices and life decisions they have to make, and how minorities can thrive in an unfriendly, monocultural environment. Based on original field work and research, the author analyses how people live, and how they adapt to societies which are not motivated by Western liberal ideals of multiculturalism. The book also offers a unique perspective on how Islam develops in an environment where it is seen as alien and disloyal. A useful contribution analyzing historical and post-colonial experiences of Muslim minorities and how they survive and evolve over the course of state monopoly in mainland Southeast Asia, this book will be of interest to academics working on Muslim minorities, Asian Religion and Southeast Asian Studies.

Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing

Author : Deborah Reed-Danahay,Helena Wulff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000968859

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Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing by Deborah Reed-Danahay,Helena Wulff Pdf

This book brings fresh perspectives to the anthropology of migration. It focuses on what migrants write and how anthropologists may incorporate insights gained from engagement with this writing into research methods and writing practices. The volume includes a range of contributions from leading scholars in the field, all organized around a striking set of questions about the conditions in which migrant narratives are written and translated, the audiences for which they are intended, the genres and media through which they are disseminated, and what such stories include or leave out. The contributors to this volume demonstrate an innovative shift in anthropological methods by showing how fiction and nonfiction, graphic memoir and autoethnography, song lyrics, as well as social media posts and images unsettle the power dynamics in the study of migration narrative. This book will serve as important supplemental reading for courses on migration, literary anthropology, ethnographic methods, and sociocultural anthropology in general. Its interdisciplinary perspective will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students with interests in migration, narrative, and anthropological writing genres.