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Insufficient funds : the culture of money in low-wage transnational families / / Hung Cam Thai



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Autore: Thai Hung Cam <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Insufficient funds : the culture of money in low-wage transnational families / / Hung Cam Thai Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (509 p.)
Disciplina: 305.8959/22073
Soggetto topico: Vietnamese - United States - Economic conditions
Vietnamese - United States - Social conditions
Immigrants - Family relationships - United States
Immigrants - Family relationships - Vietnam
Money - Social aspects - United States
Money - Social aspects - Vietnam
Families - Economic aspects - United States
Families - Economic aspects - Vietnam
Transnationalism - Social aspects - United States
Transnationalism - Social aspects - Vietnam
Soggetto non controllato: Saigon
Vietnam
Vietnamese diaspora
consumption
expenditure cascade
low-wage immigrants
migrant money
remittances
social worth
transnational families
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Six tales of migrant money -- The making of a transnational expenditure cascade -- Money as a currency of care -- The migrant provider role -- The American dream in Vietnam -- Compensatory consumption -- Emulative consumption -- The cyclical entrenchment of monetary habits -- The high price of esteem consumption -- Tall promises -- Conclusion : special money in low-wage transnational families.
Sommario/riassunto: Every year migrants across the globe send more than
Titolo autorizzato: Insufficient funds  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-9056-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787886703321
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