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Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia (IIAS Publications series)
Author(s): Barak Kalir (Author), Malini Sur (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: July 12, 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 9089644083
- ISBN-13: 9789089644084
Book Description
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities examines how legality and other sources of authority intersect in the regulation of human mobility. The book focuses on the ethnographic exploration of the experiences and views of mobile subjects in the vast and rapidly changing continent of Asia. The contributors analyze tensions between the letter of the law and social legitimation, territorial boundaries and commodity flows, state practices and migrant subjectivities, and labour brokerage and national and international organizations. This volume offers key insights for students of globalization and transnationality and policy relevance for development practitioners, governments, and NGOs.
About the Author
Barak Kalir is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He is Co-Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, and Director of the Master Programme in Contemporary Asian Studies. Malini Sur received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2012 and is a fellow at the University of Toronto in Fall 2012.
