Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Tables, Maps, Figures and Photographs 7
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Introduction. Mobile Practices and Regimes of Permissiveness 11
6. 1. Illegality Rules Chinese Migrant Workers Caught Up in the Illegal but Licit Operations of Labour Migration Regimes 27
7. 2. Contesting the State of Exception in the Afghan- Pakistani Marchlands 55
8. 3. ‚Looking for a Life‘ Rohingya Refugee Migration in the Post-Imperial Age 75
9. 4. Smuggling Cultures in the Indonesia- Singapore Borderlands 91
10. 5. Trade, Transnationalism and Ethnic Infighting Borders of Authority in Northeast Borneo 109
11. 6. Bamboo Baskets and Barricades Gendered Landscapes at the India-Bangladesh border 127
12. 7. Moving between Kerala and Dubai Women Domestic Workers, State Actors and the Misrecognition of Problems 151
13. 8. Emigration of Female Domestic Workers from Kerala Gender, State Policy and the Politics of Movement 169
14. 9. Mainland Chinese Migrants in Taiwan, 1895-1945 The Drawbacks of Being Legal 189
15. 10. ‚Playing Edge Ball‘ Transnational Migration Brokerage in China 207
16. Epilogue. Irregular Mobilities and Disjunctive Moralities 229
17. About the Editors and Contributors 241
18. Bibliography 247
19. Index 261