SEAA Reads

Passport Entanglements - Protection, care, and precarious migrations . Nicole Constable, 2022 (University of California Press) During the fall session hosted by Nan Kim, there were eight social scientists --including host and also the featured author-- on the Zoom meeting online, among which were researchers on Foreign Domestic Workers (FDW) and migration matters. Our small grouped allowed us to begin with brief self-introductions at the onset of the first hour before doing so even more briefly in the final 45 minutes when Nicole Constable beamed in at the end of today's "No Kings" marches around the country. Since some participants had already shared initial impressions about the book during the round of self-introductions, the starter question was about Constable's writing voice: weaving in the nature of her relationship to the interviewees on the government/administrator side and the FDW side. She made clear the limitations and sometimes delicate middle ground she...