LEADER 04840nam 2201081 a 450 001 9910816418703321 005 20240314014721.0 010 $a0-520-27670-1 010 $a0-520-95681-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520956810 035 $a(CKB)2550000001102645 035 $a(EBL)1318191 035 $a(OCoLC)853364660 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000918824 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12343226 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918824 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10908771 035 $a(PQKB)10205240 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000889924 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1318191 035 $a(DE-B1597)519357 035 $a(OCoLC)857079369 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520956810 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1318191 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10734319 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL505128 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001102645 100 $a20130507d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe wherewithal of life$b[electronic resource] $eethics, migration, and the question of well-being /$fMichael Jackson in conversation with Emmanuel Mulamila, Roberto M. Franco, and Ibrahim Oue?draogo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-27672-8 311 $a1-299-73877-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreamble -- $tEmmanuel -- $tRoberto -- $tIbrahim -- $tPostscript -- $tAppendix: Existential Mobility -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men - a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston - in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations and ethical dilemmas of those migrating from the global south. Michael Jackson offers the first biographically based phenomenological account of migration and mobility, providing new insights into the various motives, tactics, dilemmas, dreams, and disappointments that characterize contemporary migration. It is argued that the quandaries of African or Mexican migrants are not unique to people moving between 'traditional' and 'modern' worlds. While more intensely felt by the young, seeking to find a way out of a world of limited opportunity and circumscribed values, the experiences of transition are familiar to us all, whatever our age, gender, ethnicity or social status - namely, the impossibility of calculating what one may lose in leaving a settled life or home place; what one may gain by risking oneself in an alien environment; the difficulty of striking a balance between personal fulfillment and the moral claims of kinship; and the struggle to know the difference between 'concrete' and 'abstract' utopias (the first reasonable and worth pursuing; the second hopelessly unattainable). 606 $aAnthropology$xPhilosophy 606 $aEthics$xAnthropological aspects 606 $aWell-being 606 $aImmigrants$vCross-cultural studies 610 $aafrica. 610 $aamerica. 610 $aamsterdam. 610 $aanthropologists. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $abiographical. 610 $aboston. 610 $aburkina faso migrant. 610 $acontemporary migration. 610 $acopenhagen. 610 $acultural anthropology. 610 $adiscussion books. 610 $aethical dilemmas. 610 $aethics. 610 $aeurope. 610 $aglobal south. 610 $aimmigrant experiences. 610 $alife changes. 610 $alife experiences. 610 $amexican migrant. 610 $amigration studies. 610 $amigration. 610 $amodern life. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $aphenomenological accounts. 610 $aphilosophy. 610 $asocial historians. 610 $asocial science. 610 $augandan migrant. 610 $awell being. 615 0$aAnthropology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEthics$xAnthropological aspects. 615 0$aWell-being. 615 0$aImmigrants 676 $a301.01 700 $aJackson$b Michael$f1940-$0960686 701 $aMulamila$b Emmanuel$01719407 701 $aFranco$b Roberto M$0241716 701 $aOue?draogo$b Ibrahim$01719408 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816418703321 996 $aThe wherewithal of life$94117211 997 $aUNINA