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50260 - Table 8: Precarity, Labor, and Relational Work Across Asian and Asian American Contexts
Tue, August 12, 8:00 to 9:30am, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Ballroom Level/Gold, Regency ADescription
This panel investigates how labor, care, and belonging are negotiated within systems of racialization, migration, and economic uncertainty. From work-life policies in Japan to the experiences of undocumented Chinese migrants in the U.S., these papers reveal the complex intersections of identity, policy, and relational labor in shaping the lives of workers and their communities.
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Conceptualizing “new craft” jobs in precarious Japan: gastronomic micro-entrepreneurship as care work in an aging society - James Farrer, Sophia University
Help or Hindrance? Work-Life Leave Policies and Employment Continuity among Japanese Regular Employees - Jia Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Fashioning Homogeneity: Ambivalent Nationalisms and Decoupling Strategies in Japan’s Discourse of (No) Immigration - Ryoko Yamamoto, SUNY Old Westbury
Racialized Cultural Capital at Work: A Comparative Study of Transracially Adopted and Second-Generation Asian Americans - Allison Sullivan, Emory University
The Social Life of Postmortem Ties: The Ongoing Relational Work of Grave Sweeping in China - Becky Yang Hsu, Georgetown University
Worker Citizen: Legalization and Political Relocation among the “Walk-route” Undocumented Chinese in the US - Xinting Li, University of Chicago