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Diaspora and Migration

China

Women’s Migration and Home in Chinese and Sinophone Culture

A review of Life on the Move: Women’s Migration and Re/making home in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature and Film, by Hsin-Chin Hsieh. Befo...
China

Gender and Restaurant Work in Shanghai

A review of Transforming Life in China: Gendered Experiences of Restaurant Workers in Shanghai, by Yang Shen. Although many existing literature study ...
Cultural Anthropology

Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor

A review of Western Music By Its Others: Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor, by Anjeline de Dios. Angeline de D...
Cultural Anthropology

The Work of Domestic Service in Contemporary Morocco

A review of Hired to be daughters: Domestic service among ordinary Moroccans, by Mary Elizabeth Montgomery. “Domesticity in Morocco has always been a ...
China

Immigrants in Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, and Tang China

A review of My Neighbor the Barbarian: Immigrant Neighborhoods in Classical Athens, Imperial Rome, and Tang Chang’an, by Ryan Russell Abrecht. Ryan Ab...
Diaspora/Migration

Mobility and Senses of Belonging among the Fatani People

A review of Be-longing: Fatanis in Makkah and Jawi, by Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad. Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad offers an intriguing and perceptive st...
Cultural Anthropology

Social Difference and Culinary Education in Peru

A review of The Taste of Distinction: Culinary Education and the Production of Social Difference in Lima, Peru, by Amy Lasater-Wille The thesis illust...
Diaspora/Migration

Civil Unrest by Expatriates in Istanbul

A review of Sensemaking of Civil Unrest by Expatriates in Istanbul, Turkey from May 31, 2013 to July 18, 2013 by LeAnn Gale DeHoff. It has...
Diaspora/Migration

Decolonising Anglo-Indians

A review of Decolonising Anglo-Indians: Strategies for a Mixed Race Community in Late Colonial India during the First Half of the Twentieth Century, b...
China

The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne

A review of The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia). In July 2013, I embarked on a PhD rese...
China

Young Women’s Migration in Modern China

A review of Young Women’s Migration in Modern China: From Rural Villages to Factories in Urban Cities, by Juan Zhong. The present dissertation by Juan...
Diaspora/Migration

Burundian Refugees in Tanzania

A review of Waiting for Citizenship—Pragmatics of Belonging of Burundian Refugees in Protracted Exile: The Case of Ulyankulu Settlement, Tanzania, by ...
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