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This article uses the case studies of Australia and Malaysia to examine how diverse states in the Asia-Pacific region approach asylum seekers in practice and in discourse. Using a social constructionist approach to identity, the article highlights how governments in each country have grappled with "irregular" migration and the challenges it poses for national identity through processes of "othering" and "exclusion." This comparison shows that the process of excluding asylum seekers on the basis of identity is not a Western phenomenon, but one extending to countries across the region.
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087482
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2009.
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In January 2007 a first generation Indian migrant with Australian citizenship travelled to the United States from Australia to provide care for her Indian grandmother with severe dementia. She did so because her grandmother's primary carer, the Indian migrant's maternal aunt, had to escort her Filipina maid of over ten years back to the Philippines, after the maid had suffered an aneurism and had recovered enough to express her desire to return home. The multiple narratives embedded in these few lines illustrate that in the daily lives of transnational families and caregivers, gender, generation, migration, access, and homeland come together in a myriad of ways that complicate understandings of traditional caregiving and raise the question: whose 'story' do we focus on? Using an expanded framework of global care chains as articulated by Nicola Yeates and Loretta Baldassar's work on caregiving in transnational families, I explore through this personal 'case-study' how each link within the chain maps to the other and the power dynamics that contextualise these links. Building on Yeates' work, I argue for the recognition of temporality in transnational caregiving and conclude with a call for further research and theorising on caregiving that takes account of the transformations and transactions that occur within families in a global context.
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087481
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2009.
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Starting from the premise that mobility is a fundamental social issue, this article addresses the impact of mobility and place on identity. Three major schools of thought addressing this issue are examined: the socio-historical approach of Giddens (1991) and Bauman (1997, 2001) that describes a shift over the last century from place-based (prescribed) identities to mobile (achieved) identities; recent theories in sociology that see identity as mobile, dynamic, hybrid, and relational; and recent theories in geography that consider the relationship between place and identity. With reference to my own research into the migration experiences of a group of young adults in Australia, I argue that both mobility and place are essential components of identity construction and discuss the complex inter-relationships between mobility, place, and identity.
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050522
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Mar-Apr 2004.
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Foreign Policy Globalization Index reveals that even as the world economy slowed, Internet growth in poor countries and increased cross-border travel deepened global links. In last year's index, Ireland and Switzerland topped our ranking of personal, political, economic, and technological globalization in 62 countries. This year, who's up, who's down, and who's the most global of them all?
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087478
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2009.
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This article discusses recent performative ethnographic work in the Goth/Industrial music scene as the band "Blood Jewel"and how through the medium of cyber space this has led to different kinds of engagements with ethnographic "subjects." This experience is the context for theorizing the basis and forward trajectory of ethnographic fieldwork, especially with regard to topics such as the study of sexuality and violence which have proved resistant to standard ethnographic strategies. The cultural meanings of sexual and violent representation, challenges to normative sexualities, and the emergence of digital subjectivities and ontologies are then examined in relation to this ethnographic approach. It is concluded that an anthropology still stuck in the problematic of the European Enlightenment must urgently consider the disappearance of its traditional "subjects" as meaningful ethnographic categories of research and work to contribute to the emergence of a post-human anthropology in which the post-Enlightenment "subject" is re-configured as a participant observer in research.
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