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By Pattana Kitiarsa

ISBN-10: 6162150755

ISBN-13: 9786162150753

Transnational hard work migration frequently starts with the dream of securing a extra sturdy and wealthy destiny, an opportunity to outlive. The trap of “global towns” as a spot to realize that dream looms huge in the context of rural-urban migration flows. This booklet finds a few of the advanced phenomena and tactics that strip naked the lives and goals of migrant employees dwelling in a foreign country, whose lifestyles studies are overwhelmingly ruled by means of rigidity and affliction and reduced gendered roles.

The booklet illuminates the intimate elements of the way Thai male migrants have transcended their harsh truth whereas dwelling below Singapore’s strict laws governing international staff. Stripped naked of the robust sociocultural, financial, and criminal strategies that govern their life at domestic, those males needs to recraft their gendered selfhoods, identities, and sensibilities.

Using own and interpretive ethnography, the publication explores how well known song, activities, spiritual ideals, cultural traditions, sexual hope, and intimacy are refashioned by way of appropriating cultural and symbolic capital into new cultural reviews. It additionally offers an intensive examine the unexpected unexplained nocturnal demise syndrome (SUNDS) between younger fit Thai development staff in Singapore. The author’s in-depth analyses of migrant social lifestyles and male migrant gendered identitynegotiating methods supply a useful contribution to our knowing of work transnationalism within the Southeast Asian context.

About the Author

Pattana Kitiarsa used to be Assistant Professor within the division of Southeast Asian reports, school of Arts and Social Sciences, nationwide collage of Singapore. His examine excited about a huge array of issues together with Muai Thai kick boxing, Buddhism, Thai pop culture and cinema, conventional gala's, and transnational exertions migration.

Highlights:

• an incredible contribution to reports of the masculinization of migration
• presents plentiful perception into the lived event of migrant staff
• Explores a frequently forgotten aspect of work migration, that of sexual intimacy
• provides a wealthy, exact figuring out of “village transnationalism”

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