Passport Entanglements

Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations

Nicole Constable

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University of California Press
04 April 2023

Asian history; Migration, immigration & emigration; Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology

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.

By: Nicole Constable
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520387997
ISBN 10: 0520387996
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 04 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.