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Voyages From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs

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ISBN-10: 0801477395

ISBN-13: 9780801477393

Edition: 2nd 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Cathy A. Small

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Most Americans are unaware that the United States is a major terminus for the people of Tonga, an island nation in the South Pacific. Small examines Tongan migration to the United States in a transnational perspective, stressing that many of the new migrant populations seem to successfully manage dual lives, in both the old country and the new. To that end, she describes life in contemporary Tongan communities and in U.S. settings.-Library Journal "The central idea of Voyages-that Tonga and all Tongans exist at this moment in time in a transnational space-comes through vividly and powerfully, and the durability of this image is testimony to the success of Small's experiment in ethnographic…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.946

Cathy A. Small is Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs , Second Edition, and My Freshman Year (as Rebekah Nathan), both from Cornell.

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Departures
Portrait of a Migrating Village
Why Migrate?
Arrivals
Coming to America
One Family's Story
Palu, the One Who Left
An Anthropologist over Time
Returns
Going Home: Tongan Village Life in the 1990s
Distant Family
Finau, the One Who Stayed
Tradition
Travels Ahead
The Meanings of Tongan Migration
Anthropology in a Transnational World
Revisiting Globalization
California Dreams
Back to the Islands
Reflections on and of Globalization
Appendix: Tongan Population and Migration Estimates
Notes
Bibliography
Index