Nicole-Constable | Asian Studies Center

transnationalism, migration and mobilities; the commodification of intimacy; gender and reproductive labor; ethnographic writing and power.

Given Name:

Email Address:

constabl@pitt.edu

Family Name:

Constable

Publications:

2014 Constable, Nicole. Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor. University of California Press, 2014.

2013 "Correspondence Marriages, Virtual Communities, and Counter-Erotics on the Internet" In Media, Erotics and Transnational Asia. Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 111-37.

2013 "Conference as Feminist Ethnography and the Blurring of Boundaries". Special issue Remapping the Erotic: Interrogations from Asia, Sik Ying Ho, ed. Sexualities.

2012 Brides, Maids and Prostitutes: Reflections on the Study of “Trafficked” Women. In: Shadow lines: Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia. Devleena Ghosh, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 14-35.

Qualifications:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Department:

Anthropology

Region:

East Asia, Pacific Asia

Office:

3124 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Regional specialty:

East Asia

Southeast Asia

Office phone number:

412-648-8846

Rank:

Professor

Biography:

Nicole Constable is a sociocultural anthropologist whose interests include transnationalism, migration and mobilities; the commodification of intimacy; gender and reproductive labor; ethnographic writing and power. Her geographical areas of specialization are Hong Kong, China, the Philippines and Indonesia. She has conducted fieldwork in Hong Kong on constructions of Hakka Chinese Christian identity, on resistance and discipline among Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers, and among migrant parents. Recent publications have focused on cross-border marriages, internet ethnography, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, religion and labor protests among migrant workers.  Her newest publication is a book titled Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor (University of California Press and Hong Kong University Press 2014).

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Departmental Webpage:

https://www.anthropology.pitt.…