Insufficient Funds: the Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
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Main Author: Thai, Hung Cam 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Palo Alto Stanford University Press 2014
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Item Description:Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; 1. Six Tales of Migrant Money; 2. The Making of a Transnational Expenditure Cascade; 3. Money as a Currency of Care; 4. The Migrant Provider Role; 5. The American Dream in Vietnam; 6. Compensatory Consumption; 7. Emulative Consumption; 8. The Cyclical Entrenchment of Monetary Habits; 9. The High Price of Esteem Consumption; 10. Tall Promises; Conclusion: Special Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families; Appendix: Methodology and Interviewees; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Every year migrants across the globe send more than 500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their poor, non-migrant family members give, receive, and spend money. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork with more than one hundred members of transnational families, Hung Cam Thai examines how and why immigrants, who largely earn low
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (509 pages)
ISBN:9780804790567
0804790566

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