5-0950 NEGOTIATING MARRIAGE, SEX, AND SELF IN TRANSNATIONAL ASIA

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 16:00-17:45

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Chair: Larissa Sandy (La Trobe University)

16:00

Objects of Pity or Subjects of Power? Discourse On Aging Singles In Urban China Today

Arianne M Gaetano (Auburn University)

16:15

Constructing and Reconstructing Selves In a New Land : Three Narratives of North Korean Migrant Women In South Korea

Yoon Young Kim (KEDI(Korean Educational Development Institute))

16:30

Borderline Contested: Identity-Perception, Home-Imagination and Refugee Everyday Life In Mea La, Thailand/ Myanmar Borders

Lee Lan Wong (Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University)

16:45

The Politics of Affect In Transnational Commodified Marriage: Reconsidering “Real”/“Fake” Marital Unions In the Context of Taiwan

Husn-Hui Tseng (U of Washington, Seattle)

17:00

Violence of Labels: Categorizing North Koreans In China

Joowon Park (American University)

17:15

Discussion

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