Passport Entanglements
Download or Read eBook Passport Entanglements PDF written by Nicole Constable and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Nicole Constable |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2022-11-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780520387997 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0520387996 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Passport Entanglements by : Nicole Constable
Book excerpt: Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate rights. Constable finds that new biometric technologies and surveillance do not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy, but rather reinforce violent structures on already vulnerable women by producing new vulnerabilities and reproducing old ones.
