...Nicole Constable This article explores, ethnographically and critically, migrant women's contributions to three intersecting sectors of “intimate industries” in Asia: domestic work, sex tourism, and adoption. These three sectors are normally understood as separate and distinct, and in the cases...

...Sungyun Lim Abstract This article examines false registration as a method of domestic adoption in South Korea. The article argues that the practice of falsely registering adoptees as natural births in the family registry emerged in response to the highly restrictive adoption laws in South Korea...

... postcolonial discomfort affected the trajectory of elite hegemony in decolonizing and postcolonial Singapore. The elite initially adopted a hybrid Malayan identity, which emulated the transformative multiracialism of their leftist comrades-turned-opponents. After undesired separation from Malaysia...

... of the digital infrastructure that evolved around the trend, the essay offers three arguments. First, it claims that the digital economy has adopted a particular mode of accumulation—the social factory—that has expanded sources of value extraction by blurring the boundaries between paid/productive and unpaid...

..., many of the baby girls in welfare homes would not have trouble finding an adoptive home domestically were it not for the state’s own policies that view adoption as a way of circumventing the state’s stringent limits on reproduction. More recently...

... families to adopt needy children as a way to demonstrate faith.47 Within just a few years, hundreds of churches have established “orphan-­care” ministries that have guided thousands of families through the process of adopting both domestically...

... as not necessary for domestic adoptions within Vietnam. Describing a sense of community cohesion, he asserted, “In Vietnam there’s a network of neighbors who oversee things very well. Because of Vietnam- ese culture, everyone knows what’s going...

... linked to technology and reproduction such as call centers (Gupta and Mankekar) and adoption centers (Wang). Whereas research on intimate labor associated with the so-­called family and the domestic sphere has focused on migration...

...Chris Berry 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 The Sacred, the Profane, and the Domestic in Cui Zi’en’s Cinema Chris Berry Cui Zi’en is a unique force. But I confess I almost passed him by. The first Cui Zi’en film I saw was Men and Women (Nannan Nün...

... imperialism. The Constitutional Court interpretation, although admittedly circumscribed by its domestic legal reach, nonetheless gestured to this broader geopolitical context by adopting an unprecedented hearing process (e.g., live streaming) and issuing an English-language summary of its interpretation...

... of domestic political economy.23 As for the larger, more pertinent question of everyday wear, the association urged the government not to issue any regulations, perhaps for fear that the state would mandate the general adoption of foreign clothing...

.... The real horror here is palpable. Having adopted the conventions and templates of the horror genre, Kel- vin Tong has created a spectacularized and fictive account of the suffer- ing and endurance of domestic laborers in Singapore. In that process...

... the depiction of modern life, which is now seen as the only model of an ideal life. In the beginning of the 1990s, domestic and semidomestic advertising companies with a large capital base began to adopt the advertising images used...

... and care deficit, Taiwan and Japan have nevertheless adopted divergent approaches to recruiting and training migrant care workers (“deferential surrogates” vs. “professional others”). This comparison demonstrates national diversity in the intersecting formation of care regime and migration regime. It also...

... into market economic reforms immediately following a period of violent social upheaval; the increasing internationalization of the domestic politics, economies, and cul- tural affairs of nation-states under the historical conditions of global...

... that even the most recent and cul- turally most divergent versions are ultimately also tales of domestication. Variations in those retellings are in the mechanisms used to assert that domestication, mechanisms that are determined...

... a PhD in Korean studies in the Depart­ ment of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, Sweden. His recent book, Comforting an Orphaned Nation: Representations of International Adoption and Adopted Koreans in Korean Popular...

... to. Some of the Chinese in Taiwan began adopting elements of Japanese dress and domestic architecture quite soon after colonization. A Western missionary reported in 1909 that Taiwanese in the cities were “fast becom- ing Japanned.” He cited both...

... individuals, couples, and parents who seek to realize their rights to family. After decades of civil society and legal activism, Taiwan's legislature passed a law in May 2019 that legalized same-sex marriage for domestic couples and some transnational couples and that allowed a same-sex spouse to adopt...

... transformation. Discrimination against women functions not according to the old-fashioned mandatory commands but rather by the creation of a regulatory or disciplinary regime that compels a woman to adopt a husband's nationality and children to adopt their father's nationality. The historical retrospect...