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Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong-born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Emigration and immigration --- Women foreign workers --- Women immigrants --- Foreign women workers --- Women alien labor --- Migrant women labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant women workers (Foreign workers) --- Women migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Women migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Foreign workers --- Women employees --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Hong Kong (China) --- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) --- Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu (China) --- 香港特別行政區 (China) --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu --- 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區 --- HKSAR (China) --- Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü (China) --- Xianggang (China) --- 香港 (China) --- Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu (China) --- Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) --- Hong Kong --- Emigration and immigration. --- asia. --- asian immigration. --- asian migration. --- asylum seekers. --- businessmen. --- china. --- chinese politics. --- citizenship. --- domestic workers. --- ethnography. --- family. --- filipina women. --- global problems. --- hong kong. --- humanity. --- indonesia. --- indonesian women. --- labor politics. --- local residents. --- major city. --- migrant domestic workers. --- migrant mothers. --- migrants. --- migration politics. --- migration. --- mobility. --- morality. --- mothering. --- parenthood. --- parenting. --- refugees. --- south asia. --- temporary workers. --- the philippine islands. --- tourists. --- traders. --- working class. --- world city.