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positions (2016) 24 (1): 71–96.
Published: 01 February 2016
... this industry is negotiated at the village level in the context of Vietnamese state rhetoric equating female marriage migration to human trafficking and the delocalization of the marriage process (“being chosen,” being trained and being married) to foreign men from villages to larger cities. Recent expansions...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and languages continue to inform the national development projects of postcolonial and postimperial states (N. Kim 2008 ; Park 2011 ), with the most popular destinations concentrated in North America and western Europe (Waters 2005 , 2006 ). The increasingly disparate pathways of migration to places beyond...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 847–872.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Qian Gong; Huan Wu Abstract Research on transnational migration from China since the 1990s has focused on stories about highly educated, skilled migrants. Little research has been done about the transnational migration of skilled trade workers who moved from China to Western countries. This article...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Harriot Beazley; Jessica Ball Abstract This article contributes to debates about the temporal and affective implications of migration in Southeast Asia by presenting child-focused research concerned with children in rural Lombok, Indonesia, who have been “left behind” by their transnational...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 353–375.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Johanna L. Waters; Maggi W. H. Leung Abstract This article foregrounds and unpacks the significance of education in the migration of children in contemporary Asia, drawing principally on research undertaken in Hong Kong and across the border with Mainland China (Shenzhen). Using the example...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the ongoing presence of the US military in South Korea. The analysis highlights the ways in which Borshay Liem's and Kaisen's films make visible how such diasporas, linked to the larger diaspora produced by the Korean War, unsettle linear narratives of migration, arrival, and settlement. The failures...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 211–239.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Tina Mai Chen This article inquires into how “the personal” assumes specific positions relative to truth claims constitutive of twentieth-century national and international documentary systems. It analyzes migration of those identified as Chinese in and out of Burma during the late 1930s and 1940s...
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 469–497.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Jamie Coates Over the past thirty years, moving overseas has been a positively valued aspiration in China. On both a government level, and within popular discourse, migration has been propagated as a means to be better citizens, and a better nation, resonating with families’ desire for a better...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Leslie Wang Since the Chinese government first began allowing international adoption in 1992, over 130,000 children have migrated to a wide range of countries in the global North. Although most scholarly attention has focused on healthy female adoptees, in recent years a growing number of special...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 179–203.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., this article illuminates how global geopolitics, uneven capitalist development, and transnational migration are entangled with intimacy, power, and emotions to shape intimate labor at a critical juncture of the changing global order. Selling Fantasies of Rescue: Intimate Labor, Filipina Migrant Hostesses...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 253–279.
Published: 01 February 2016
... 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...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 617–642.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Wanning Sun Work on migration and gendered mobility has shown us that places are constituted not only by their location and physical features, but also by the specific, often regulated forms of bodies that inhabit them. In this essay, I want to call into question the process by which the connection...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 253–277.
Published: 01 February 2010
... reflects on the restructuring of local power relations and the role of “informatization” policy discourse therein. A crucial, yet often overlooked, dimension of reform in China today is the migration and subsequent transformation of technosocial meaning across different scales of public and private...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 561–591.
Published: 01 May 2012
... guarantors of the integrity and dignity of the Human. The remainder of the essay tracks the migration of neoliberal logics to the realm of global health management and their intersection with the political, technological, and ethical elements of late socialism in the combat of HIV/AIDS. Copyright 2012...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 821–846.
Published: 01 November 2024
... mothers in mass media. Migrant mothers in the urban villages of China have learned and internalized this ideology of intensive mothering along with their rural-to-urban migration through reading and interactions with medical and educational experts. Based on eight months of ethnographic research in two...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 895–916.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Pál Nyíri; Fanni Beck Abstract Since the 1980s, China has become the source of a new type of international migration. In the liberal world of the 1990s, Chinese migrants became the epitome of “flexible citizenship” aimed at maximizing economic advantages. In the postliberal world of which...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Francisco Benitez Using the hit movies Kailangan kita ( I Need You , 2002) and Milan (2004) as examples, this essay explores how Philippine commercial film mediates the affective and emotional labor required to maintain flows of out-migration, despite narrative trajectories that uphold a final...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 175–207.
Published: 01 February 2019
... bureaucracies. Such topography, based on the algorithmic abstractions of financialization, is capable of mapping movements in everything from gene pools and student migration to recombinant DNA and literary studies, and then further mapping all manner of correlations among the various domains. Hence, while...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 297–332.
Published: 01 May 2019
... imprint, by self-reflexively implicating the voyeuristic penetration of media surveillance into the lives of the socially marginal to comment on desensitized apathy toward the abuse of migrant workers and the disparities of inter-Asian labor migration in Singapore. References Acharya Amitav...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 323–352.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., and by emphasizing children's perspectives, the author puts forth the argument that theorizations of integration and assimilation developed in the migration literature are useful for understanding the context in which de facto stateless children in Cambodia negotiate “place belonging.” Huong and Hung's fractious...
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