Class, Contention, and a World in Motion (Paperback)
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Published by Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2012
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Paperback. Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Using ethnographic examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East, contributors question how and why particular forms of political struggle and collective action may, or indeed may not, be carried forward in the context of geographic and social border crossings. In doing so, they bring the dynamic relationship between class, gender, and culture to the forefront in each distinctive migration setting. Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Class, Contention, and a World in Motion (Paperback)
- Author
- Winnie Lem
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Oxford
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0857457942
- ISBN 13
- 9780857457943
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Using ethnographic examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East, contributors question how and why particular forms of political struggle and collective action may, or indeed may not, be carried forward in the context of geographic and social border crossings. In doing so, they bring the dynamic relationship between class, gender, and culture to the forefront in each distinctive migration setting.
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About the Author
Winnie Lem is professor of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada. Her publications include Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity and Praxis in Rural Languedoc (SUNY Press,1997); Culture, Economy, Power: Anthropology as Critique; Anthropology as Praxis (SUNY Press, 2002) [co-edited with Belinda Leach]; Confronting Capital: Critique and Engagement in Anthropology (Routledge, 2012) [co-edited with Belinda Leach and Pauline Gardiner Barber]; Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography (Routledge, 2012 [co-edited with Pauline Gardiner Barber]. She has published in American Ethnologist, Critique of Anthropology, Ethnic and Racial Studies and is currently co-editor-in-chief of Dialectical Anthropology.
Pauline Gardiner Barber is Professor of Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Canada. Recent articles on Filipinos as global migrants appear in Berghahn, Blackwell, SUNY and Routledge volumes, as well as journals such as the Third World Quarterly, Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology and Anthropologica. She is co-editor of the Ashgate Press series Gender in a Global/Local World.
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