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UNINA9910452696603321 |
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Titolo |
Wind over water [[electronic resource] ] : migration in an east Asian context / / edited by David W. Haines, Keiko Yamanaka and Shinji Yamashita |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-86651-X |
0-85745-741-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Collana |
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Foundations in Asia Pacific studies ; ; v. 2 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HainesDavid W |
YamanakaKeiko |
YamashitaShinji |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - East Asia |
Electronic books. |
East Asia Emigration and immigration |
East Asia Ethnic relations |
East Asia Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Migrants, States, and Cities; Chapter 1 - Human Trade in Colonial Vietnam; Chapter 2 - Wind through the Woods; Chapter 3 - Migrant Social Networks; Chapter 4 - Migration and DiverseCity; Chapter 5 - A Transnational Community and Its Impact on Local Power Relations in Urban China; Chapter 6 - Immigration, Policies, and Civil Society in Hamamatsu, Central Japan; Part II: Family, Gender, Lifestyle, and Culture; Chapter 7 - Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodologicval Implications |
Chapter 8 - Cross-Border Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Chinese MenChapter 9 - Achieving and Restoring Masculinity through Homeland Return Visits; Chapter 10 - Mothers on the Move; Chapter 11 - Here, There, and In-between; Chapter 12 - Moving and Touring in Time and Place; Part III: Work, Ethnicity, and Nationality; Chapter 13 - In the Shadows and at the Margins:; Chapter 14 - African Traders in |
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Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong; Chapter 15 - Negotiating "Home" and "Away"; Chapter 16 - "Guarded Globalization"; Conclusion; About the Contributors; 19-Index_HAINES-P263-270 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneu |
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