Insufficient funds : the culture of money in low-wage transnational families / / Hung Cam Thai
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| Autore: |
Thai Hung Cam <1976->
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| Titolo: |
Insufficient funds : the culture of money in low-wage transnational families / / Hung Cam Thai
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| 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 genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-9056-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463989303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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