Work and migration : life and livelihoods in a globalizing world
edited by Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Karen Fog Olwig
| Year of publication: |
2002
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| Other Persons: | Olwig, Karen Fog (contributor) ; Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
London : Routledge |
| Subject: | Welt | World | Globalisierung | Globalization | Soziale Lage | Social situation | Arbeitsmigranten | Migrant workers | Lebensstandard | Standard of living | Internationale Migration | International migration | Lebensqualität | Quality of life | Sozialer Wandel | Social change | Armut | Poverty | Arbeitsbedingungen | Working conditions |
| Description of contents: |
Using case studies from those who have moved either transnationally or within their own country, international contributions offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move
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| Extent: | Online-Ressource (viii, 229 p) 25 cm |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Mobile livelihoods: Making a living in the world; Mobile livelihoods Regional and historical perspectives; Representing the local: Mobile livelihood practices in the Peruvian Central Sierra; Mobile minds and socio-economic barriers: Livelihoods and African-American identifications among youth in Nairobi; Mobility, rootedness, and the Caribbean higgler: Production, consumption and transnational livelihoods; Livelihoods extended; A 'respectable' livelihood: Mobility and identity in a Caribbean family 'You must win their affection': Migrants' social and cultural practices between Peru and ItalyBusiness as usual: Livelihood strategies and migration practice in the Peruvian diaspora; The moving 'expert': A study of mobile professionals in the Cayman Islands and North America; Irse pa' fuera: The mobile livelihoods of circular migrants between Puerto Rico and the United States; Livelihoods and the transnational return; Transnational livelihoods and identities in return migration to the Caribbean: The case of skilled returnees to Jamaica The final move? Displaced livelihoods and collective returns in Peru and GuatemalaIndex Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web |
| ISBN: | 0-415-26372-7 ; 978-0-415-26372-6 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012674587