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

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Tangled Mobilities investigates how migration unfolds across Asian social spheres through the movement of people, objects, and ideas. The book foregrounds mobility as both an object of study and a methodological approach, linking places and affects to changing forms of personhood. It advances theory and methodology through transdisciplinary, empirically grounded research, and presents contributions that examine sexual mobility, irregularity, material entanglements, maternal migration, emotions, aspirations, and intergenerational ties in transnational families.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

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Pages280

Reading Time11 h 46 min

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Introduction Tangled Mobilities in the Age of Transnational Migration

Chapter 1 Sexual Mobility, Migration, and Sexual Fields

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

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

Chapter 4 Tangled Intergenerational Mobilities: Maternal Migration and Japanese-Filipino Children in Japan

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

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

Chapter 7 Intergenerational Intimacies and Mobilities in Transnational Families: The Experiences of Japanese-Filipino Children

TANGLED MOBIL ITIES Places, A ects, an~~d~~ Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration EDITED BY Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot & Gracia Liu-Farrer TANGLED MOBILITIES Edited by Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, in collaboration with AnthroMob, the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network. This transdisciplinary book series features empirically grounded studies from around the world that disentangle how people, objects and ideas move across the planet. With a special focus on advancing theory as well as methodology, the series considers movement as both an object and a method of study. Recent volumes: Volume 12 TANGLED MOBILITIES Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration Edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer Volume 11 MIGRATION IN THE MAKING OF THE GULF SPACE Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions Edited by Antia Mato Bouzas and Lorenzo Casini Volume 10 WE ARE ALL AFRICANS HERE Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe Kristín Loftsdóttir Volume 9 LIMINAL MOVES Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times Flavia Cangià Volume 8 PACING MOBILITIES Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements Edited by Vered Amit and Noel B. Salazar Volume 7 FINDING WAYS THROUGH EUROSPACE West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside Joris Schapendonk Volume 6 BOURDIEU AND SOCIAL SPACE Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements Deborah Reed-Danahay Volume 5 HEALTHCARE IN MOTION Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access Edited by Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Ginger A. Johnson, and Anne E. Pfister For a full volume listing, please see the series page on our website: [https://www](https://www). [berghahnbooks.com/series/worlds-in-motion](berghahnbooks.com/series/worlds-in-motion) Tangled Mobilities Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration Edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer berghahn N E W Y O R K • O X F O R D [www.berghahnbooks.com](www.berghahnbooks.com) First published in 2022 by Berghahn Books [www.berghahnbooks.com](www.berghahnbooks.com)[ ](www.berghahnbooks.com)© 2022 Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion, editor. | Liu-Farrer, Gracia, editor. Title: Tangled mobilities : places, affects, and personhood across social spheres in Asian migration / edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer. Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2022. | Series: Worlds in motion ; volume 12 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2022004878 (print) | LCCN 2022004879 (ebook) | ISBN 9781800735675 (hardback) | ISBN 9781800736689 (open access ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Asians--Migrations. | Asians--Foreign countries--Social conditions. | Immigrants--Asia--Social conditions. | Asia--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects. Classiﬁcation: LCC JV8490 .T36 2022 (print) | LCC JV8490 (ebook) | DDC 304.8095--dc23/eng/20220416 LC record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2022004878](https://lccn.loc.gov/2022004878) LC ebook record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2022004879](https://lccn.loc.gov/2022004879) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-80073-567-5 hardback ISBN 978-1-80073-668-9 open access ebook [https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800735675](https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800735675) An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of

FAQs

What is the central focus of Tangled Mobilities?

It examines how migration across Asian social spheres involves the movement of people, objects, and ideas, connecting places and affects to transformations in personhood.

How does the book treat mobility in research and theory?

Mobility is addressed as both an object of study and a methodological approach, supporting theoretical and methodological development through empirical research.

Which topics are explored across the book’s chapters?

Chapters cover sexual mobility, irregularity and trafficking policy impacts, material mobility, maternal migration, emotional and affective drivers, aspirations, and intergenerational experiences in transnational families.

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