About Nicole Constable

Nicole Constable is professor of anthropology in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and research professor at the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books about gender and migration in Asia, including Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor (University of California Press, 2014). She is finishing a new book, entitled Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care and Precarious Migration (University of California Press, forthcoming), which traces the social lives and entanglements of passports with politicaleconomic and social forces that deeply impact the lives and experiences of Indonesian workers.