Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor [1 ed.] 9780520957770, 9780520282018

Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and

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Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor [1 ed.]
9780520957770, 9780520282018

Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and

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Maternal love is considered the most unconditional form of love, yet mothers have been prepared to sacrifice their child

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Introduces a new concept of 'kinopoetics' to transform how we read migrancy and literary form Coins a new conc

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Migration is an inescapable issue in the public debates and political agendas of Western countries, with refugees and mi

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All work is free work – or is it? Rooted in the historical and theoretical debates over the status of labor, this volu

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The insightful chapters in this volume reveal the multiple and multifaceted intersections between mass incarceration and

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Mothers describe falling in love with their babies and then, more slowly, learning to understand them. Children flourish

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Out of Sync & Out of Work explores the representation of obsolescence, particularly of labor, in film and literature

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Donna Seto investigates why children born of wartime sexual violence are rarely included in post-conflict processes of r

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In the absence of federal legislation, each state in the United States has its own policies regarding family leave, job

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