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The Asian Migrant's Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, this edited volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard labour and (potentially) exploitative or abusive situations. It shows that migrants are not only on the receiving end where it concerns their bodies, nor are their bodies only utilized for their work as migrants: they also seek control over their bodies and to make them part of strategies to express themselves. The collective papers in The Asian Migrant's Body argue that the body itself is a primary site for understanding how migrants reflect on and experience their migration trajectories.

Introduction. Brokerage, Gender and Precarity in Asia's Migration Industry -- Precarity, migration and brokerage in Indonesia: insights from ethnographic research in Indramayu -- Brokered (Il)legality: Co-Producing the Status of Migrants from Myanmar to Thailand -- Understanding the Cost of Migration: Facilitating Migration from India to Singapore and the Middle East -- Unauthorized Recruitment of Migrant Domestic Workers from India to the Middle East: Interest Conflicts, Patriarchal Nationalism and State Policy -- An Industry of Migration Frauds? State Policy, Migration Assemblages and Migration of Nurses from India

As our increasingly globalized world alters the dynamics of migration, the ideas that migrants have about returning to their home countries have evolved as well. This diverse collection examines the changes and complexities of migration patterns in a range of Asian countries and cities, exploring how globalization and transnationalism shape and give meaning to the migrant experience. From Japanese-Brazilian transmigrants and Filipina students in Ireland to skilled migrants from India, the authors address migrants' backgrounds, ambitions, and opportunities to offer intriguing insights and propose fascinating new questions about the lives of migrants in today's world.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction. Return Migration/the Returning Migrant: To What, Where and Why? / Michiel Baas -- 2. Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia: Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multigenerational Meanings of Return / Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer -- 3. The Fluidity of Return: Indian Student Migrants' Transnational Ambitions and the Meaning of Australian Permanent Residency / Michiel Baas -- 4. Resident 'Non-resident' Indians: Gender, Labour and the Return to India / Amy Bhatt -- 5. 'It's Still Home Home' : Notions of the Homeland for Filipina Dependent Students in Ireland / Diane Sabenacio Nititham -- 6. Looking Back while Moving Forward: Japanese Elites and the Prominence of 'Home' in Discourses of Settlement and Cultural Assimilation in the United States, 1890-1924 / Helen Kaibara -- 7. Return of the Lost Generation? : Search for Belonging, Identity and Home among Second-Generation Viet Kieu / Priscilla Koh -- 8. 'A Xu/Sou for the Students' : A Discourse Analysis of Vietnamese Student Migration to France in the Late Colonial Period / Cindy A. Nguyen -- 9. 'The Bengali Can Return to His Desh but the Burmi Can't Because He Has No Desh' : Dilemmas of Desire and Belonging amongst the Burmese-Rohingya and Bangladeshi Migrants in Pakistan / Nausheen H. Anwar -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

Para entender como pode ser possível (co)criar com a IA, este artigo conversará com o artista indiano Harshit Agrawal, que é simultaneamente um designer com Adobe e um artista que trabalha com IA para fins criativos. Introduzindo o conceito de arquivo sociocultural compreendendo as imaginações de IA conforme elas têm aparecido na cultura popular, este artigo sugere que, quando buscamos entender como vivemos, trabalhamos e criamos com IA no "presente", também devemos questionar como isso foi imaginado no "passado". Isso facilitará uma abordagem mais produtiva da IA para o "futuro".

Review of: Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-Nationalist Society, Gracia Liu-Farrer (2020)
New York: Cornell University Press, pp. i–xii and 1–259,
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Global city ambitions and associated cosmopolitan aspirations are principally oriented towards attracting highly skilled migrants who are offered the opportunity of permanent residency. In contrast, low-skilled migrants increasingly face issues of segregation and sanitation, being housed in dormitories far from the city centre, often explained as an attempt to 'decongest' the city. That these migrants are not considered part of the aspired cosmopolitan gloss that global cities like to associate themselves with is furthermore underscored by their status as permanently temporary with no option to stay-on beyond a maximum number of years. This article challenges the inherent assumption that low-skilled migrants' choice for a particularly migration destination is only motivated by monetary reasons. It does so by drawing on two distinct research projects: the first among migration agents in Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India), the second among variously skilled migrants from India in Singapore. By doing so, the article explicates that not only the cost of formalities, agency fees and travel contribute to how expensive it is to migrate to a particular destination (e.g. the Gulf, Malaysia or Singapore) but also its brand value, mainly determined by its assumed quality of life outside work. This brand value speaks to both low- and highly skilled workers, although in different ways.

PurposeTaking as a point of departure the edited collection Yaraana (1999), ostensibly the first mainstream publication on gay writing from India, the purpose of this article is to trace the way Indian authors have dealt with the growing visibility of nonnormative sexualities. It suggests that from the start this debate has centered on a dyad between local and culturally specific sexual identities vs its globalized opposite, which is held to threaten regionally specific expressions. The continuing struggle for recognition and equality is revealing for a growing divide between those whose sexuality can rely on growing representation in Indian popular media, and those who feel increasingly marginalized.Design/methodology/approachThis article revisits important texts that were published and publicly accessible in India from 1999 onwards. All the text considered and discussed were accessible outside academic networks and thus, available in mainstream bookstores, produced by Indian authors or long-term residents and available in English. Considering the vast language diversity of India as well as the complexity of gaining access to locally published materials, the analysis does not include texts that are only available in a vernacular language. Besides this, the article benefits from the direct input of key activists and scholars from India working on this topic.FindingsEven if homosexuality has now been decriminalized in India, what emerges from the writing is a concern that globally hegemonic expressions of alternate sexualities might impact, homogenize and eventually eradicate locally specific expressions. Considering socioeconomic equality in India, this raises serious questions about those whose precarious positions may see them further marginalized because of this.Originality/valueWhile there have been various overviews and analyses of the fight for decriminalization of homosexuality in India, so far there has not been an analysis how this benefited from a growing awareness and discussion in popularly accessible texts. This analysis also raises concerns that the fight for decriminalization might have negative consequences for those in marginalized positions.

AbstractThis special section specifically focuses on student‐migrants and the way they are being catered to by an emerging education‐migration industry. The articles included build upon the observation that especially within the Asia‐Pacific region there is an increasing conflation and entanglement between categories of international students and skilled migrants. This has led to an emerging "industry" that facilitates study‐abroad trajectories and acts as broker for two‐step migration pathways. This Introduction aims to situate the research presented here within the broader context of a burgeoning field of research which examines the growing popularity of international education across the Asia‐Pacific region; the way its emergence is increasingly entangled with specific ambitions that skilled migration programmes cater to; and the way highly regulated skilled migration programmes have given rise to a migration industry in general.