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.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2010.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.