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Beyond Informality - How Chinese Migrants Transformed A Border Economy

by Douglas De Toledo Piza

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 Chinese migrants are playing increasingly large, stratified roles in the informal economies of South America. One of the clearest examples of this phenomenon is in the region's largest informal economy of counterfeit and smuggled goods, spanning from Ciudad del Este, the Paraguayan border city, to SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil's largest metropolis.
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Stigma Matrix - Gender, Globalization, And The Agency Of Pakistan''S Frontline Women

by Fauzia Husain

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 As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. In The Stigma Matrix Fauzia Husain draws on the experiences of policewomen, lady health workers, and airline attendants, all frontline workers who help the Pakistani state, and its global allies, address, surveil, and discipline veiled women citizens.
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Aid And The Help - International Development And The Transnational Extraction Of Care

by Dinah Hannaford

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 Examining the reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the ostensibly ""giving"" industry of development can be an extractive industry as well. Aid and the Help addresses this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the intersection of development work and domestic work.
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Forbidden Intimacies - Polygamies At The Limits Of Western Tolerance

by Melanie Heath

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 A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "Other"In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice. In Forbidden Intimacies, Melanie Heath comparatively investigates the regulation of polygamy in the United States, Canada, France, and Mayotte. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and archival sources, Heath uncovers the ways in which intimacies framed as "other" and "offensive" serve to define the very limits of Western tolerance. These regulation efforts, counterintuitively, allow the flourishing of polygamies on the ground. The case studies illustrate a continuum of justice, in which some groups, like white fundamentalist Mormons in the U.S., organize to fight against the prohibition of their families'' existence, whereas African migrants in France face racialized discrimination in addition to rigid migration policies. The matrix of legal and social contexts, informed by gender, race, sexuality, and class, shapes the everyday experiences of these relationships. Heath uses the term "labyrinthine love" to conceptualize the complex ways individuals negotiate different kinds of relationships, ranging from romantic to coercive. What unites these families is the secrecy in which they must operate. As government intervention erodes their abilities to secure housing, welfare, work, and even protection from abuse, Heath exposes the huge variety of intimacies, and the power they hold to challenge heteronormative, Western ideals of love.
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Unruly Speech - Displacement And The Politics Of Transgression

by Saskia Witteborn

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 Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and shows how naming practices and witness accounts become potent ways of resistance in everyday interactions and in global activism. Featuring the voices of Uyghurs from three continents, Unruly Speech analyzes the discursive and material force of place names, social media, surveillance, and the link between witnessing and the discourse on human rights. The book provides a granular view of disruptive communication: its global political moorings and socio-technical control. The rich ethnographic study will appeal to audiences interested in migration and displacement, language and social interaction, advocacy, digital surveillance, and a transnational China.
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Seeking Western Men - Email-Order Brides Under China''S Global Rise

by Monica Liu

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 Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes—younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Western Men. Her study of China''s email-order bride industry offers stories of Chinese women who are primarily middle-aged, divorced, and proactively seeking spouses to fulfill their material and sexual needs. What they seek in their Western partners is tied to what they believe they''ve lost in the shifting global economy around them. Ranging from multimillionaire entrepreneurs or ex-wives and mistresses of wealthy Chinese businessmen, to contingent sector workers and struggling single mothers, these women, along with their translators and potential husbands from the US, Canada, and Australia, make up the actors in this multifaceted story. Set against the backdrop of China''s global economic ascendance and a relative decline of the West, this book asks: How does this reshape Chinese women''s perception of Western masculinity? Through the unique window of global internet dating, this book reveals the shifting relationships of race, class, gender, sex, and intimacy across borders.
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Children Of The Revolution - Violence, Inequality, And Hope In Nicaraguan Migration

by Laura J. Enriquez

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 Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela were impoverished youth when the Sandinista revolution took hold in Nicaragua in 1979. Against the backdrop of a war and economic crisis, the revolution gave them hope of a better future — if not for themselves, then for their children. But, when it became clear that their hopes were in vain, they chose to emigrate. Children of the Revolution tells these four women''s stories up to their adulthood in Italy. Laura J. Enríquez''s compassionate account highlights the particularities of each woman''s narrative, and shows how their lives were shaped by social factors such as their class, gender, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. These factors limited the options available to them, even as the women challenged the structures and violence surrounding them. By extending the story to include the children, and now grandchildren, of the four women, Enríquez demonstrates how their work abroad provided opportunities for their families that they themselves never had. Hence, these stories reveal that even when a revolution fails to fundamentally transform a society in a lasting way, seeds of change may yet take hold.
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At Risk - Indian Sexual Politics And The Global Aids Crisis

by Gowri Vijayakumar

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 In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world''s biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort to prevent it. HIV prevention programs channeled billions of dollars toward those groups designated as at-risk—sex workers and men who have sex with men. At Risk captures this unique moment in which these criminalized and marginalized groups reinvented their "at-risk" categorization and became central players in the crisis response. The AIDS crisis created a contradictory, conditional, and temporary opening for sex-worker and LGBTIQ activists to renegotiate citizenship and to make demands on the state. Working across India and Kenya, Gowri Vijayakumar provides a fine-grained account of the political struggles at the heart of the Indian AIDS response. These range from everyday articulations of sexual identity in activist organizations in Bangalore to new approaches to HIV prevention in Nairobi, where prevention strategies first introduced in India are adapted and circulate, as in the global AIDS field more broadly. Vijayakumar illuminates how the politics of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape global crisis response. In so doing, she considers the precarious potential for social change in and after a crisis.
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Here, There, And Elsewhere - The Making Of Immigrant Identities In A Globalized World

by Tahseen Shams

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 Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants'' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and experience the interconnectedness of societies—not only the societies of origin and destination, but also, the societies in places beyond. Tahseen Shams posits a new concept for thinking about these places that are neither the immigrants'' homeland nor hostland—the "elsewhere." Drawing on rich ethnographic data, interviews, and analysis of the social media activities of South Asian Muslim Americans, Shams uncovers how different dimensions of the immigrants'' ethnic and religious identities connect them to different elsewheres in places as far-ranging as the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. Yet not all places in the world are elsewheres. How a faraway foreign land becomes salient to the immigrant''s sense of self depends on an interplay of global hierarchies, homeland politics, and hostland dynamics. Referencing today''s 24-hour news cycle and the ways that social media connects diverse places and peoples at the touch of a screen, Shams traces how the homeland, hostland, and elsewhere combine to affect the ways in which immigrants and their descendants understand themselves and are understood by others.
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Beauty Diplomacy - Embodying An Emerging Nation

by Oluwakemi M. Balogun

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 Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront of this trend. In a country with over 1,000 reported pageants, these events are more than superficial forms of entertainment. Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Drawing on four case studies of beauty pageants, this book examines how Nigeria''s changing position in the global political economy and existing cultural tensions inform varied forms of embodied nationalism, where contestants are expected to integrate recognizable elements of Nigerian cultural identity while also conveying a narrative of a newly-emerging, globally-relevant Nigeria. Oluwakemi M. Balogun critically examines Nigerian pageants in the context of major transitions within the nation-state, using these events as a lens through which to understand Nigerian national identity and international relations.
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Walmart - Made In China

by Eileen Otis

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Walmart - Made In China

by Eileen Otis

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Bedouin Bureaucrats - Mobility And Property In The Ottoman Empire

by Nora Barakat

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The Tropical Silk Road - The Future Of China In South America

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Seeking Western Men - Email-Order Brides Under China'S Global Rise

by Monica Liu

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Beyond Informality - How Chinese Migrants Transformed A Border Economy

by Douglas De Toledo Piza

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The Stigma Matrix - Gender, Globalization, And The Agency Of Pakistan'S Frontline Women

by Fauzia Husain

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 As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. In The Stigma Matrix Fauzia Husain draws on the experiences of policewomen, lady health workers, and airline attendants, all frontline workers who help the Pakistani state, and its global allies, address, surveil, and discipline veiled women citizens.
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The Stigma Matrix - Gender, Globalization, And The Agency Of Pakistan'S Frontline Women

by Fauzia Husain

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 As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. In The Stigma Matrix Fauzia Husain draws on the experiences of policewomen, lady health workers, and airline attendants, all frontline workers who help the Pakistani state, and its global allies, address, surveil, and discipline veiled women citizens.
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Free To Judge - The Power Of Campaign Money In Judicial Elections

by Joanna Shepherd e Michael Kang

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Aid And The Help - International Development And The Transnational Extraction Of Care

by Dinah Hannaford

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 Examining the reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the ostensibly ""giving"" industry of development can be an extractive industry as well. Aid and the Help addresses this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the intersection of development work and domestic work.
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Feel The Grass Grow - Ecologies Of Slow Peace In Colombia

by Angela Jill Lederach

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Aid And The Help - International Development And The Transnational Extraction Of Care

by Dinah Hannaford

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Forbidden Intimacies - Polygamies At The Limits Of Western Tolerance

by Melanie Heath

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by Melanie Heath

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