Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot (Editor), Gracia Liu-Farrer (Editor)

Overview

The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. In exploring how the migratory process unfolds in different stages of migrants’ lives, the chapters in this collected volume broaden perspectives on mobility, offering insight into the way places, affects, and personhood are shaped by and connected to it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805393399
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	08/02/2024
Series:	Worlds in Motion , #12
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot is tenured research associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and senior lecturer (maîtresse d’enseignement) at the Universityé libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume International Marriages and Marital Citizenship: Southeast Asian Women on the Move (Routledge, 2017).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Tables

Introduction: Tangled Mobilities in the Age of Transnational Migration
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer

Chapter 1. Sexual Mobility, Migration, and Sexual Fields
James Farrer

Chapter 2. Cycles of Irregularity: The Intergenerational Impacts of Trafficking Policies on Migrant Families
Pardis Mahdavi

Chapter 3. Mobile Homes, Mobile Objects: Materiality and Mobility of Vietnamese-Belgian Couples
Angelie Marilla

Chapter 4. Tangled Intergenerational Mobilities: Maternal Migration and Japanese Filipino Children in Japan
Fiona-Katharina Seiger

Chapter 5. Emotions, Places, and Mobilities: The Affective Drives of the Migration and Settlement Aspirations among Highly Educated Migrants
Gracia Liu-Farrer

Chapter 6. Affects, Aspirations, and the Transformation of Personhood: A Case of Japanese-Pakistani Marriages through a Generational Lens
Masako Kudo

Chapter 7. Intergenerational Intimacies and Mobilities in Transnational families: The Experiences of Japanese-Filipino Children
Jocelyn Celero

Chapter 8. Truly Liberal and Immensely Oppressive? The Return Migration of Vietnamese Queer Migrants in Contemporary Japan
An Huy Tran

Chapter 9. Social Mobility and Labor Migration Under Recession: Exploring Generational Differences
Kumiko Kawashima

Chapter 10. Pursuing Respectability in Mobility: Marriage, Migration and Divorce of Filipino women in Belgium and the Netherlands
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot

Conclusion

Index

Editorial Reviews

“Tangled Mobilities constitutes an original contribution both the-oretically and empirically to the bourgeoning (im)mobilities scholarship. Moreover, empirical cases in this volume provide a compelling argument that future research employing the framework of “tangled mobilities” should engage the emotional and temporal dimensions of mobility…The book will drive further scholarly discussions and pave the way for new research on yet understudied human mobilities.” • HAL Open Science, Advances in Southeast Asian Studies

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