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Beyond the Brokers: Local Marriage Migration Industries of Rural Vietnam
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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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Continuity and Disjuncture: The Translocal-Transnational Experiences of Chinese Skilled Trade Workers in Western Australia
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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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“I Can't Do Anything but Wait”: The Lived Experiences of Children of Transnational Migrants in Lombok, Indonesia
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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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Children's Bodies Are Not Capital: Arduous Cross-Border Mobilities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong
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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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“The Ending Is Not an Ending At All”: On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of Korean Transnational Adoption and the Korean War
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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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Asian Boundaries, Documentary Regimes, and the Political Economy of the Personal
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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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Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China
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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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Selling Fantasies of Rescue: Intimate Labor, Filipina Migrant Hostesses, and US GIs in a Shifting Global Order
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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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Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training of Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan and Japan
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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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Suzhi on the Move: Body, Place, and Power
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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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A City of Ten Years: Public/Private Internet Development in Nanhai
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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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From “the People” to “the Human”: HIV/AIDS, Neoliberalism, and the Economy of Virtue in Contemporary Vietnam
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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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Mismatched: Intensive Mothering in China's Urban Villages
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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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From Golden Venture to Golden Visas: The Reenchantment of Culture and Flexible Citizenship in a Nativist World
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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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Transnational Questing Desire in Star Cinema's Kailangan kita and Milan
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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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The Financialization of Knowledge and the Pooling of Populations: On the Biopolitical Management of Geocultural Areas during the Transition from Industrial to Bioinformatic Capitalism
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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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Mockumenting Migrant Workers: The Inter-Asian Hinterland of Eric Khoo’s No Day Off and My Magic
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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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Children's Experience and Practice of Belonging: The Realities of Integration among De Facto Stateless Vietnamese Children in Cambodia
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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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