Download or read book Passport Entanglements 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. Book excerpt: Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads—political, historical, economic, global, and local—that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or “real but fake” passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate’s attempts to regularize or “clean up” (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate rights while the renewal policies simultaneously undermined them. Contrary to global “best practices” concerning passports, Constable argues that imposing new biometric technologies does not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy but can instead reinforce violent structures on already vulnerable women by producing new vulnerabilities and reproducing old ones.
Download or read book Passport Entanglements 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. Book excerpt: "Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable looks at how these instruments determine legal status and prescribe rights. The book explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy as they reinforce violent structures on often already vulnerable women. Constable finds that new biometric technologies and surveillance do not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy, but rather produce new vulnerabilities and reproduce old ones"--
Download or read book License to Travel written by Patrick Bixby and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Departing for a new life far away; fleeing from the dangers, the restrictions, or just the mundanity of familiar surroundings; enduring unwanted scrutiny in the backrooms of officialdom: some of the most dramatic scenes of a life story involve a passport. By examining the travel documents of artists, intellectuals, ancient messengers, and modern migrants, License to Travel tells how these seemingly humble documents also implicate us--our emotions and imaginings--in some of the most sweeping transformations of human history: the emergence of the nation-state, of international relations, of government surveillance, of refugee crises, and of our global interconnectedness"--
Download or read book Alias Oswald written by W. R. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad Tourist written by Suzanne Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.
Download or read book Moscow Guide written by Yves Gerem and published by . This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour in and around the famous Russian capital, led by two savvy former residents -- Includes information on excursions just outside Moscow, including the homes of Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, and Pasternak; the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius; St. Petersburg; and the Winter Palace Few other imperial cities in the world conjure up as many images: the onion domes of the Kremlin and Red Square, the old churches and monasteries, the world-renowned Bolshoy Theater. Today's Moscow is a rapidly changing city, a thriving center for both business and tourism. This guide shows the old and new from the insiders' perspective. Here are several fascinating walking tours through the city, with signage translated to English from the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. From Pushkin's apartment to the Church of the Ascension, from the Kremlin Museums to the Tretyakov Art Gallery, from St. Basil's Cathedral to the peaceful Alexander's Gardens, the authors point out hundreds of must-see sights and activities inside Moscow's famous rings and boulevards. Equally helpful, they give sound advice on inexpensive ways to get around the large and sometimes confusing city. More than 100 restaurants are reviewed and recommended (including which to avoid), along with theaters, nightclubs, concerts, opera, and other cultural activities that include a number of options for children. Travel-planning chapters with information on health and medical facilities, and background on Russian culture, people, and history round out this thorough, expert look at modern-day Moscow.
Download or read book The Passport Invisible written by Perley Poore Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Saturday Evening Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passport to the World written by Wallie A. Criswell and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passport and Other Stories written by Antonis Samarakis and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of Jade written by Bertil Lintner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chambers s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Kansas Bankers Association written by Kansas Bankers Association and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passport Affair written by Sam Landau and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the still-turbulent year of 1970, Eric was in mid-life, experiencing the trappings that come with it: a failing marriage, growing children, and a mundane job. When he meets Robin, a vivacious and beautiful woman, their attraction is instantaneous. Together, Robin and Eric decide they've had enough of the establishment. Pooling their assets, they surrender their jobs, buy a VW camper, and equip themselves like many other wanderers of the day. Legally separated from his wife and having provided for his children, Eric leaves his life behind to join Robin in an adventure that will change them both. With their camper equipped for roughing it, they travel from the parks and forests of Washington and Oregon, down the coast of California, through Mexico and Central America. Along the way, they experience the beauty of their natural surroundings, fall deeply in love, and encounter some colorful characters - some friendly and some who place them in grave danger. Eric and Robin's exciting tale of travel and adventure includes jungle safaris, deep sea fishing trips, erotic love, and dangerous encounters with terrorists, smugglers, and modern-day pirates, and is based on the author's own experiences.
Download or read book Jungle Passports written by Malini Sur and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and Christian "ethnic minorities," suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and traitors. In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend against a background of violence, scarcity, and India's construction of one of the world's longest and most highly militarized border fences. Jungle Passports recasts established notions of citizenship and mobility along violent borders. Sur shows how the division of sovereignties and distinct regimes of mobility and citizenship push undocumented people to undertake perilous journeys across previously unrecognized borders every day. Paying close attention to the forces that shape the life-worlds of deportees, refugees, farmers, smugglers, migrants, bureaucrats, lawyers, clergy, and border troops, she reveals how reciprocity and kinship and the enforcement of state violence, illegality, and border infrastructures shape the margins of life and death. Combining years of ethnographic and archival fieldwork, her thoughtful and evocative book is a poignant testament to the force of life in our era of closed borders, insularity, and "illegal migration."
Download or read book Library and the Museum Therein written by Newark Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Report of the public library for 1918-
Download or read book Motorcycle Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
