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Cosmologies of credit : transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China /

Ethnographic study of transnational migration from rural China to the U.S. and the systems of value and exchange that emerge from this migration.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chu, Julie Y., 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • To be emplaced : Fuzhounese migration and the geography of desire
  • Stepping out : contesting the moral career from peasant to overseas Chinese
  • Snakeheads and paper trails : the making of exits
  • Bad subjects : human smuggling, legality, and the problem of entrance
  • For use in heaven or hell : the circulation of the U.S. dollar among gods, ghosts, and ancestors
  • Partings and returns : gender, kinship, and the mediation of renqing.