Author: Bruce Herschensohn
Publisher: iBooks
ISBN: 9780743479844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
From their first chance encounter in the British-ruled territory of Hong Kong, to their fateful reunion during the Chinese takeover decades later, twelve very different people discover that their lives have been irrevocably altered by the events of the Cold War.
Passport
Author: Bruce Herschensohn
Publisher: iBooks
ISBN: 9780743479844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
From their first chance encounter in the British-ruled territory of Hong Kong, to their fateful reunion during the Chinese takeover decades later, twelve very different people discover that their lives have been irrevocably altered by the events of the Cold War.
Publisher: iBooks
ISBN: 9780743479844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
From their first chance encounter in the British-ruled territory of Hong Kong, to their fateful reunion during the Chinese takeover decades later, twelve very different people discover that their lives have been irrevocably altered by the events of the Cold War.
Welcome to the United States
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Hong Kong
Author: Emily Matchar
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 9781786574428
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Amazing experiences : inspirational images, highlights, city walks and the best of local knowledge ; plan the perfect trip : planning features and top itineraries give you the freedom to create your ideal trip ; find hidden travel gems, our writers uncover local secrets that will make your trip unique. Special features : guide to local cuisine, shopping tips, travel with children, Macau coverage.
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 9781786574428
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Amazing experiences : inspirational images, highlights, city walks and the best of local knowledge ; plan the perfect trip : planning features and top itineraries give you the freedom to create your ideal trip ; find hidden travel gems, our writers uncover local secrets that will make your trip unique. Special features : guide to local cuisine, shopping tips, travel with children, Macau coverage.
Passport Entanglements
Author: Nicole Constable
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520388003
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads—political, historical, economic, global, and local—that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or “real but fake” passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate’s attempts to regularize or “clean up” (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate rights while the renewal policies simultaneously undermined them. Contrary to global “best practices” concerning passports, Constable argues that imposing new biometric technologies does not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy but can instead reinforce violent structures on already vulnerable women by producing new vulnerabilities and reproducing old ones.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520388003
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads—political, historical, economic, global, and local—that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or “real but fake” passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate’s attempts to regularize or “clean up” (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate rights while the renewal policies simultaneously undermined them. Contrary to global “best practices” concerning passports, Constable argues that imposing new biometric technologies does not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy but can instead reinforce violent structures on already vulnerable women by producing new vulnerabilities and reproducing old ones.
Consular Notification and Access
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Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This booklet contains instructions and guidance relating to the arrest and detention of foreign nationals, deaths of foreign nationals, the appointment of guardians for minors or incompetent adults who are foreign nationals, and related issues pertaining to the provision of consular services to foreign nationals in the United States. This booklet is designed to help ensure that foreign governments can extend appropriate consular services to their nationals in the United States and that the United States complies with its legal obligations to such governments. The instructions and guidance herein should be followed by all federal, state, and local government officials, whether law enforcement, judicial, or other, insofar as they pertain to foreign nationals subject to such officials' authority or to matters within such officials' competence.
Publisher:
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Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This booklet contains instructions and guidance relating to the arrest and detention of foreign nationals, deaths of foreign nationals, the appointment of guardians for minors or incompetent adults who are foreign nationals, and related issues pertaining to the provision of consular services to foreign nationals in the United States. This booklet is designed to help ensure that foreign governments can extend appropriate consular services to their nationals in the United States and that the United States complies with its legal obligations to such governments. The instructions and guidance herein should be followed by all federal, state, and local government officials, whether law enforcement, judicial, or other, insofar as they pertain to foreign nationals subject to such officials' authority or to matters within such officials' competence.
Foreign visa requirements
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Sovereignty at the Edge
Author: Cathryn H. Clayton
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 168417497X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"How have conceptions and practices of sovereignty shaped how Chineseness is imagined? This ethnography addresses this question through the example of Macau, a southern Chinese city that was a Portuguese colony from the 1550s until 1999. As the Portuguese administration prepared to transfer Macau to Chinese control, it mounted a campaign to convince the city’s residents, 95 percent of whom identified as Chinese, that they possessed a “unique cultural identity” that made them different from other Chinese, and that resulted from the existence of a Portuguese state on Chinese soil. This attempt sparked reflections on the meaning of Portuguese governance that challenged not only conventional definitions of sovereignty but also conventional notions of Chineseness as a subjectivity common to all Chinese people around the world. Various stories about sovereignty and Chineseness and their interrelationship were told in Macau in the 1990s. This book is about those stories and how they informed the lives of Macau residents in ways that allowed different relationships among sovereignty, subjectivity, and culture to become thinkable, while also providing a sense of why, at times, it may not be desirable to think them."
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 168417497X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
"How have conceptions and practices of sovereignty shaped how Chineseness is imagined? This ethnography addresses this question through the example of Macau, a southern Chinese city that was a Portuguese colony from the 1550s until 1999. As the Portuguese administration prepared to transfer Macau to Chinese control, it mounted a campaign to convince the city’s residents, 95 percent of whom identified as Chinese, that they possessed a “unique cultural identity” that made them different from other Chinese, and that resulted from the existence of a Portuguese state on Chinese soil. This attempt sparked reflections on the meaning of Portuguese governance that challenged not only conventional definitions of sovereignty but also conventional notions of Chineseness as a subjectivity common to all Chinese people around the world. Various stories about sovereignty and Chineseness and their interrelationship were told in Macau in the 1990s. This book is about those stories and how they informed the lives of Macau residents in ways that allowed different relationships among sovereignty, subjectivity, and culture to become thinkable, while also providing a sense of why, at times, it may not be desirable to think them."
Fundamental Of Tourism And Travel
Author: L.K. Singh
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
ISBN: 9788182054783
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A unique contribution on tourism management. This book deals with all aspects of management of travel and tourism industry.
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
ISBN: 9788182054783
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A unique contribution on tourism management. This book deals with all aspects of management of travel and tourism industry.
Foreign Affairs Manual: Visas (4 pts.)
Author: United States. Dept. of State
Publisher:
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
City on Fire
Author: Lisa Odham Stokes
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859847169
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Hong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China. Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated Hong Kong's race for economic growth, and found expression in cinema's depictions of a 'city on fire.' In this accessible introduction to the extraordinary cinematic output of the colony, Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes review the directors and films that have established Hong Kong cinema internationally: John Woo's martial arts flicks, Tsui Hark's wire-worked fantasies, Ann Hui's exile melodramas, Stanley Kwan's limpid romances, and Wong Kar-wai's stylish art films.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859847169
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Hong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China. Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated Hong Kong's race for economic growth, and found expression in cinema's depictions of a 'city on fire.' In this accessible introduction to the extraordinary cinematic output of the colony, Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes review the directors and films that have established Hong Kong cinema internationally: John Woo's martial arts flicks, Tsui Hark's wire-worked fantasies, Ann Hui's exile melodramas, Stanley Kwan's limpid romances, and Wong Kar-wai's stylish art films.