Asian Migrant's Body
Subtitle: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9789462988668
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Gender identity
Description: "This edited volume 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, the 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 this edited volume argue that the body itself is a primary site for understanding how migrants reflect on and experience their migration trajectories."-- Back cover.