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employers) by ignoring, exporting and/or confining social reproduction to smaller
geographical scales, while migrants undertake their own social reproduction at many
different geographical sites and scales in dynamic social fields of their own
creation. Migrants deploy expansive social fields to mobilize vast complex
geographies of support. In doing so, migrants develop new social networks of care
and care giving and engage and reshape desire and sexuality in various sex/gender
systems in multiple social spaces; in bars, nightclubs, pool halls, flea markets, as
well as workplaces. In these ways the intimate relations of sexual expression are
caught up in the harsh objectifications of labor markets.
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