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Wherewithal of Life Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being

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ISBN-10: 0520276728

ISBN-13: 9780520276727

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Jackson

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The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men - a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston - in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations and ethical dilemmas of those migrating from the global south. Michael Jackson offers the first biographically based phenomenological account of migration and mobility, providing new insights into the various motives, tactics, dilemmas, dreams, and disappointments that characterize contemporary migration. It is argued…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Kathleen Blake Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University. Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) and Past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), she is President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In addition, she co-directs the Inter/National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research. She has directed several institutes focused on electronic portfolios and on service learning and reflection, and with her colleagues in English Education, she is working on developing a program in new literacies. Previously,…    

Preamble
Emmanuel
Roberto
Ibrahim
Postscript
Appendix: Existential Mobility
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index