Insufficient funds : the culture of money in low-wage transnational families /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Six tales of migrant money
- The making of a transnational expenditure cascade
- Money as a currency of care
- The migrant provider role
- The American dream in Vietnam
- Compensatory consumption
- Emulative consumption
- The cyclical entrenchment of monetary habits
- The high price of esteem consumption
- Tall promises
- Conclusion : special money in low-wage transnational families.