Insufficient Funds The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families

Name: Insufficient Funds The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
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ISBN: 9780804777322

ISBN-10: 0804777322

ISBN-13: 9780804777322

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Authors: Hung Cam Thai

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English