▪ Abstract Globalization poses a challenge to existing social scientific methods of inquiry and
units of analysis by destabilizing the embeddedness of social relations in particular …

▪ Abstract This review examines the convergence of recent anthropological interests in
gender, labor, and globalization. Attention to gender and gender inequality offers a …

One could well assume that the contours of the postcolonial anti-natalist state is a given,
rarely noticed by the surrogates themselves. As James Scott poetically noted in Weapons of …

Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world. Since the
1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household …

Exploring the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to Bahrain,
this study contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the …

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that
has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. Globalization …

With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and
class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens …

This paper addresses an issue that constantly plagues all social science research: How
should we adjust our conceptual orientations and methodological priorities to take into …

Scholarship on the migration–development nexus has focused on the outcomes of
remittances received by the inhabitants of countries in the Global South. This paper argues …

In this study of surrogate mothers in Gujarat, India, I introduce the concept of 'sexualised
care work'to describe a new type of care work—commercial surrogacy—that is similar to …