Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Conceptualizing the Asian Migrant’s Body
- 1 ‘Not a Lesbian in Dubai, Not gay in Tehran’: Sexualities, Migrations, and Social Movements across the Gulf
- 2 Bodies at Work: Gendered Performance and Migrant Beer Sellers in Southeast Asia
- 3 Body, Space, and Migrant Ties: Migrant Domestic Workers and Embodied Resistances in Lebanon
- 4 The Day Off Policy , ‘Reverse Domestication’, and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore: Maria Platt, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Khoo Choon Yen, Grace Baey and Theodora Lam
- 5 Embodying the Good Migrant in Ageing: Negotiating Positive Subjectivities Through Paid Work
- 6 Proper Conjugation of Bodies: Chastity, Age, and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants’ Families
- 7 Border-crossing as Sexual Subjects: Interracial Dating Experience of Young Chinese in New Zealand
- 8 Managing Touch: The Racialized Dynamics of Intimacy in the Los Angeles Beauty Industry
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Conceptualizing the Asian Migrant’s Body
- 1 ‘Not a Lesbian in Dubai, Not gay in Tehran’: Sexualities, Migrations, and Social Movements across the Gulf
- 2 Bodies at Work: Gendered Performance and Migrant Beer Sellers in Southeast Asia
- 3 Body, Space, and Migrant Ties: Migrant Domestic Workers and Embodied Resistances in Lebanon
- 4 The Day Off Policy , ‘Reverse Domestication’, and Emotional Labour among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore: Maria Platt, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Khoo Choon Yen, Grace Baey and Theodora Lam
- 5 Embodying the Good Migrant in Ageing: Negotiating Positive Subjectivities Through Paid Work
- 6 Proper Conjugation of Bodies: Chastity, Age, and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants’ Families
- 7 Border-crossing as Sexual Subjects: Interracial Dating Experience of Young Chinese in New Zealand
- 8 Managing Touch: The Racialized Dynamics of Intimacy in the Los Angeles Beauty Industry
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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- The Asian Migrant's BodyEmotion, Gender and Sexuality, pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2020