Chapter 8. Migrant Wives, Migrant Workers, and the Negotiation of (Il)legality in Singapore

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter Cover
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Migrant Encounters 1
4. PART I. THE INTIMATE LIVES OF INTIMATE LABORERS
5. Chapter 1. Intimacies and Remittances: The Material Bases for Love and Intimate Labor Between Korean Men and Their Foreign Spouses in South Korea 25
6. Chapter 2. Migration and the (Im)morality of Everyday Life 46
7. PART II. MIGRATION AND THE NATIONAL FAMILY
8. Chapter 3. Children of the Emir: Perverse Integration and Incorporation in the Gulf 71
9. Chapter 4. Temporary Shelter in the Shadows: Migrant Mothers and Torture Claims in Hong Kong 92
10. Chapter 5. Troubling Jus Sanguinis: The State, Law, and Citizenships of Japanese- Filipino Youth in Japan 113
11. PART III. NEGOTIATING THE STATE
12. Chapter 6. Caged in and Breaking Loose: Intimate Labor, the State, and Migrant Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and Other Arab Countries 135
13. Chapter 7. Reproduction Crisis, Illegality, and Migrant Women Under Capitalist Globalization: The Case of Taiwan 160
14. Chapter 8. Migrant Wives, Migrant Workers, and the Negotiation of (Il)legality in Singapore 184
15. Chapter 9. Regulating Cross- Border Intimacy: Authenticity Paradigms and the Specter of Illegality Among Chinese Marital Immigrants to Taiwan 206
16. List of Contributors 231
17. Index 233
18. Acknowledgments 247