The Price of Belonging: Perspectives from Asia / volume edited by Éva Rozália Hölzle and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023 | Social Sciences in Asia ; 43.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Price of Belonging - An Introduction / Éva Rozália Hölzle and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka -- 2 Suspicion and Belonging among Migrants from India's Eastern Borderlands / Lucy Dubochet -- 3 The Dangers of Proximity: On the Pitfalls of Kinship and Friendship in Migratory Practices - the Case of the Nepalese Night-watchmen in Bangalore (India) / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka -- 4 The Price of Belonging in a Japanese Sharehouse / Caitlin Meagher -- 5 Precarious Belonging: Cross-Region Migrant Brides in Northern India / Ravinder Kaur -- 6 'This Is (not) a Love Story': Negotiating Belonging, Community, and Interethnic Marriages in the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh / Nasrin Annie Siraj, Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff -- 7 Between Separatism and Integration: Difference as (not) Belonging and Being Hmong in Contemporary Laos / Phill Wilcox -- 8 'We Are Not Family! We Are Just Their Social Workers!' Belonging and Becoming in Professionalised Care Encounters of Vietnamese Berlin / Anita von Poser -- 9 Guardians of Togetherness: Becoming and Belonging in a War-Khasi Family at the Bangladesh-Tripura Border / Éva Rozália Hölzle -- ? 10 What Do We Have to Forgo in Order to Belong? Conceptual Reflections on the Ambivalences of Belonging / Antje Linkenbach -- 11 Afterword / Shelley Feldman -- Index.
To belong often involves the performance of burdensome obligations, the sacrifice or suppression of personal desires for the collective good and the demand for demonstrating lifelong loyalty. Belonging may also entail hidden threats, risks and pressures that lurk in the corners of familiarity. These are the key aspects that The Price of Belonging explores in detail by bringing together nine original ethnographic case studies from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. By shedding light on the adverse facets of belonging, the book challenges its overly idealistic depictions and offers a differentiated look at this social practice. .
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