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Class Inequality in the Global City : Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore / / by J. Ye



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Autore: Ye J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Class Inequality in the Global City : Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore / / by J. Ye Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VII, 193 p.)
Disciplina: 305.5095957
Soggetto topico: Economic 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
Soggetto geografico: Singapore Social conditions
Singapore Economic conditions
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Class Inequality in the Global City  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-43615-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910253307903321
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Serie: Global Diversities, . 2662-2580