03932nam 22007935 450 991025330790332120240207123856.01-137-43615-810.1057/9781137436153(CKB)3710000000653526(SSID)ssj0001668868(PQKBManifestationID)16459604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001668868(PQKBWorkID)14820774(PQKB)10537768(DE-He213)978-1-137-43615-3(MiAaPQ)EBC4719972(EXLCZ)99371000000065352620160429d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrClass Inequality in the Global City Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore /by J. Ye1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (VII, 193 p.) Global Diversities,2662-2580Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-137-43614-X 1-349-68342-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve one's class standing, along with limitations in achieving such aims. Through the analysis of three different groups of workers in Singapore, Ye shows that cosmopolitanism is an exclusive and aspirational construct created through global and national development strategies, transnational migration and individual senses of identity. This dialectic relationship between class and cosmopolitanism is never free from power and is constituted through material and symbolic conditions, struggles and violence. Class is also constituted through 'the self' and lies at the very heart of different constructions of personhood as they intersect with gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality.Global Diversities,2662-2580Economic developmentEthnology—AsiaSociologyIndustrial sociologySocial structureEqualityEmigration and immigrationDevelopment Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/913000Asian Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411040Sociology, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22000Sociology of Workhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22240Social Structure, Social Inequalityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010Migrationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X24000SingaporeSocial conditionsSingaporeEconomic conditionsEconomic development.Ethnology—Asia.Sociology.Industrial sociology.Social structure.Equality.Emigration and immigration.Development Studies.Asian Culture.Sociology, general.Sociology of Work.Social Structure, Social Inequality.Migration.305.5095957Ye Jauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1063449BOOK9910253307903321Class Inequality in the Global City2532424UNINA