Contributors
- Contributors
Danièle Bélanger is professor of geography at the Université Laval in Québec City. Her recent research focuses on migrants in precarious situations, including low-skilled migrant workers, undocumented migrants, and marriage migrants in Asia and North America. She recently published the article “Labour Migration and Trafficking among Vietnamese Migrants in Asia” in The American ANNALS of Political and Social Science (2014) and is the coeditor of Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam (2009).
Hae Yeon Choo is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research centers on gender, migration, and citizenship. Her work has been published in Gender and Society and Sociological Theory. Her book, Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea, will be published in 2016.
Nicole Constable is J. Y. Pillay Global-Asia Professor of Social Sciences (Anthropology) at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, and professor of anthropology at the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Her most recent book is Born out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor (2014).
Daisy Deomampo is assistant professor of anthropology at Fordham University. Her research focuses on the globalization of assisted reproductive technologies and its implications for [End Page 333] gender relations, family formation, and social stratification. Her book Transnational Repro duction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India is forthcoming from New York University Press.
Akhil Gupta is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for India and South Asia (CISA) at UCLA. He has taught at the University of Washington, Seattle (1987–89), Stanford University (1989–2006), and the University of California, Los Angeles (2006–present). His most recent books are The Anthropology of the State (2006, with Aradhana Sharma), The State in India after Liberalization (2010, with K. Sivaramakrishnan), and Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India (2012).
Chaitanya Lakkimsetti is an assistant professor in sociology and women’s and gender studies at Texas A&M University. Her research centers on sexuality, law, and globalization. She is currently completing a book manuscript on sexual politics, law, and citizenship in India.
Pei-Chia Lan is professor of sociology at National Taiwan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley, a Fulbright scholar at New York University, and a Radcliffe-Yenching fellow at Harvard University. She has authored Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (2006). She is working on a manuscript on parenting, globalization, and class inequality.
Purnima Mankekar is professor of gender studies, Asian American studies, and film, television, and digital media at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has taught at Stanford University (1993–2006) and UCLA (2007–present). Her research explores media, gendered subject formation, and transnationality in postcolonial contexts. She has published Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality (2015) and Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India (1999) and has edited two books, Caste and Outcast (2002, coedited with Gordon Chang and Akhil Gupta) and Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia (2013, coedited with Louisa Schein).
Eileen Otis is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of the award-winning book Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work and the Making of Inequality in China (2011). Her research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politics and Society, and American Behavioral Scientist, among other journals. She is currently working on a book about Walmart retail workers in China.
Juno Salazar Parreñas is an assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at The Ohio State University. Her article in American Ethnologist, “Producing Affect: Transnational Volunteerism at a Malaysian Orangutan Rehabilitation Center,” won the 2013 American Anthropological Association’s G.A.D. Award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship. She is currently working on a book manuscript, “Decolonizing Extinction: An Ethnography of Orangutan Rehabilitation.” [End Page 334]
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California. Her current research examines the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration. The author of four books and numerous articles on women’s labor migration, her latest book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor...
