Searching for a better life : growing up in the slums of Bangkok /

"Life in Bangkok for young people is marked by profound, interlocking changes and transitions. This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city's slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfill one's dreams. At the sa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mahony, Sorcha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Subjects:
Youth > Thailand > Bangkok > Social conditions.
Poor > Thailand > Bangkok > Social conditions.
Slums > Thailand > Bangkok.
Jeunesse > Thaïlande > Bangkok > Conditions sociales.
Pauvres > Thaïlande > Bangkok > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Poor > Social conditions
Slums
Youth > Social conditions
Thailand > Bangkok
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene
  • What do we know about growing up in urban poverty in Thailand?
  • Fieldwork
  • Living the teenage life
  • Doing the right thing
  • Forging the future.

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