Born out of place : migrant mothers and the politics of international labor / / Nicole Constable |
Autore | Constable Nicole |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.874/308864095125 |
Soggetto topico |
Women immigrants - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions
Women foreign workers - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions Emigration and immigration - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia
asian immigration asian migration asylum seekers businessmen china chinese politics citizenship domestic workers ethnography family filipina women global problems hong kong humanity indonesia indonesian women labor politics local residents major city migrant domestic workers migrant mothers migrants migration politics migration mobility morality mothering parenthood parenting refugees south asia temporary workers the philippine islands tourists traders working class world city |
ISBN |
1-306-46333-5
0-520-95777-6 |
Classificazione | SOC002010SOC007000SOC028000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Very Tiny Problem -- 2. Ethnography and Everyday Life -- 3. Women -- 4. Men -- 5. Sex and Babies -- 6. Wives and Workers -- 7. Asylum Seekers and Overstayers -- 8. The Migratory Cycle of Atonement -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787605403321 |
Constable Nicole
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Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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Born out of place : migrant mothers and the politics of international labor / / Nicole Constable |
Autore | Constable Nicole |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.874/308864095125 |
Soggetto topico |
Women immigrants - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions
Women foreign workers - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions Emigration and immigration - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia
asian immigration asian migration asylum seekers businessmen china chinese politics citizenship domestic workers ethnography family filipina women global problems hong kong humanity indonesia indonesian women labor politics local residents major city migrant domestic workers migrant mothers migrants migration politics migration mobility morality mothering parenthood parenting refugees south asia temporary workers the philippine islands tourists traders working class world city |
ISBN |
1-306-46333-5
0-520-95777-6 |
Classificazione | SOC002010SOC007000SOC028000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Very Tiny Problem -- 2. Ethnography and Everyday Life -- 3. Women -- 4. Men -- 5. Sex and Babies -- 6. Wives and Workers -- 7. Asylum Seekers and Overstayers -- 8. The Migratory Cycle of Atonement -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823032303321 |
Constable Nicole
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Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Challenging cosmopolitanism : coercion, mobility and displacement in Islamic Asia / / edited by Joshua Gedacht and R. Michael Feener [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Gedacht Joshua |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, UK, : Edinburgh University Press, 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 297.095 |
Collana | Edinburgh scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Islam - Asia - History
Cosmopolitanism - Islamic countries Cosmopolitanism - Asia Muslims - Asia - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
cosmopolitanism
traders Yiwu Afghanistan trading networks mobility |
ISBN |
1-4744-5366-X
1-4744-3512-2 1-4744-3511-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Hijra, Ḥajj and Muslim mobilities: considering coercion and asymmetrical power dynamics in histories of Islamic cosmopolitanism / R. Michael Feener and Joshua Gedacht -- Islamicate cosmopolitanism from North Africa to Southeast Asia / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Sufi cosmopolitanism in the seventheenth-century Indian Ocean: Sharīʻa, lineage and royal power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives / A.C.S. Peacock -- The white heron called by the muezzin: shrines, sufis, and warlords in early modern Java / Simon C. Kemper -- Variations of 'Islamic military cosmopolitanism': the survival strategies of Hui Muslims during the modern period / Tatsuya Nakanishi -- Writing cosmopolitan history in nineteenth-century China: Li Huanyi's Words and deeds of Islamic exemplars / J. Lilu Chen -- The "Shaykh al-Islām of the Philippines" and coercive cosmopolitanism in an age of global empire / Joshua Gedacht -- Bordering Malaya's 'benighted lands': frontiers of race and colonialism on the Malay Penninsula, 1887-1902 / Amrita Malhi -- Afghanistan's cosmopolitan trading networks: a view from Yiwu, China / Magnus Marsden and Diana Ibañez-Tirado. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910772084203321 |
Gedacht Joshua
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Edinburgh, UK, : Edinburgh University Press, 2018 | ||
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I did it to save my life [[electronic resource] ] : love and survival in Sierra Leone / / Catherine E. Bolten |
Autore | Bolten Catherine E (Catherine Elizabeth), <1976-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 966.4044 |
Collana | California series in public anthropology |
Soggetto topico | War and society - Sierra Leone |
Soggetto non controllato |
africa
anthropologists anthropology civilians cultural memory ethnographies evangelists fathers government human impact life and death makeni militants military history modern history nonfiction accounts overcoming trauma personal stories political politicians power of love rebel forces rebels sierra leone sierra leoneans social justice social world soldiers students survival traders traumatic experiences true stories violence wartime experiences |
ISBN |
1-282-13419-1
9786613806772 0-520-95353-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Sierra Leonean emotions, Sierra Leonean war -- Understanding Makeni and nested loyalties: marginality and collaboration in the northern capital -- "I must be grateful to them for freeing me": the soldier -- "They said nobody would hide from this war": the rebel -- "I held a gun but I did not fire it": the student -- The government brought death, the rebels allowed us to live": the trader -- "It was the Lord who wanted me to stay": the evangelist -- "They really damaged me": the father -- "The RUF thought I was on their side": the politician -- Epilogue and conclusions: Makeni, May 2010. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779222503321 |
Bolten Catherine E (Catherine Elizabeth), <1976->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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