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Cosmologies of Credit : Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China /
Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the pr...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2010]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Orthography and Names
- Introduction
- Part I: Edgy dispositions
- Introduction
- One. To Be Emplaced: Fuzhounese Migration and the Geography of Desire
- Two. Stepping Out: Contesting the Moral Career from Peasant to Overseas Chinese
- Part II. Exits and entrances
- Three. Snakeheads and Paper Trails: The Making of Exits
- Four. Bad Subjects: Human Smuggling, Legality, and the Problem of Entrance
- Part III. Debts and Diversions
- Five. For Use in Heaven or Hell: The Circulation of the U.S. Dollar among Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors
- Six. Partings and Returns: Gender, Kinship, and the Mediation of Renqing
- Conclusion: When Fortune Flows
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index