Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Plüss, Caroline (Editor), Kwok-Bun, Chan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9400729650 ISBN-13: 9789400729650 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
Dewey: 304.8 |
Series: International Perspectives on Migration |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.29 lbs) 280 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors-all specialist scholars in anthropology, geography, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology-present new approaches to intersectionality analysis, focusing on the migrants' performance of their identities as the core indicator to unravel the mutual constituitivity of cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics rooted in different places, which characterizes transnational lifestyles. The book answers one key question: What happens to people, communities, and societies under globalization, which is, among others, characterized by increasing cultural disidentification? |