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Southeast Asian Migration: People on the Move in Search of Work, Refuge, and Belonging (The Sussex Library of Asian Studies)
Khatharya Um (Ed.)
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Description for Southeast Asian Migration: People on the Move in Search of Work, Refuge, and Belonging (The Sussex Library of Asian Studies)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Um, Khatharya; Gaspar, Sofia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war, engenders personal, familial, and spiritual dislocation, and provokes a questioning of identity and belonging. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America, and Europe that highlight these trends and perspectives on Southeast Asian migration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach -- with contributions from sociology, political science, anthropology, and history -- and anchored in empirical case ... Read more
Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war, engenders personal, familial, and spiritual dislocation, and provokes a questioning of identity and belonging. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America, and Europe that highlight these trends and perspectives on Southeast Asian migration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach -- with contributions from sociology, political science, anthropology, and history -- and anchored in empirical case ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196653
SKU
V9781845196653
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Ref
99-50
About Khatharya Um (Ed.)
Khatharya Um is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published extensively on Southeast Asia and on refugee communities. Sofia Gaspar is Assistant Professor of Sociology at ISCSP-ULisboa, Portugal. She has published numerous articles on migration, bi-national marriages and transnational families.
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