Karsten Paerregaard

Peruvians Dispersed

A Global Ethnography of Migration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book examines Peruvian migration to the United States, Spain, Japan and Argentina and uses a multi-sited field research design to make ethnographic in-depth descriptions of Peru's many migrant communities in America, Europe and Asia, explore the politics of immigration that the Global North employs to control migration from the Global South and rethink current attempts to theorize transnational migration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780739118375
• ISBN-10: 0739118374
• Artikelnr.: 23393290

Autorenporträt

Karsten Paerregaard is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Extended Field Part 3 Flows and Contexts
Chapter 4 Coming and Going Chapter 5 Strangers at the Gate Part 6 Networks
and Processes Chapter 7 The Cat and the Mouse Chapter 8 Tying the Untied
Chapter 9 Global Secrets Part 10 Categories and Trajectories Chapter 11
Home, Bittersweet Home Chapter 12 Tales from the Shadow Part 13 Conclusion
Chapter 14 Between Hope and Despair