Description: Further DetailsTitle: Insufficient FundsCondition: NewSubtitle: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational FamiliesISBN-10: 0804777322EAN: 9780804777322ISBN: 9780804777322Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/09/2014Description: 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 wages as hairdressers, cleaners, and other "invisible" workers, send home a substantial portion of their earnings, as well as spend lavishly on relatives during return trips. Extending beyond mere altruism, this spending is motivated by complex social obligations and the desire to gain self-worth despite their limited economic opportunities in the United States. At the same time, such remittances raise expectations for standards of living, producing a cascade effect that monetizes family relationships. Insufficient Funds powerfully illuminates these and other contradictions associated with money and its new meanings in an increasingly transnational world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 404gAuthor: Hung Cam ThaiGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Business & FinanceRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Insufficient Funds
Title: Insufficient Funds
Subtitle: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
ISBN-10: 0804777322
EAN: 9780804777322
ISBN: 9780804777322
Release Date: 04/09/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Business & Finance
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Insufficient Funds : the Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Development / Economic Development, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Money & Monetary Policy, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 14.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Hung Cam Thai
Item Length: 8.8 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
