Insufficient Funds : the Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families.
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TextPublication details: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (509 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780804790567
- 0804790566
- Vietnamese -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Vietnamese -- United States -- Social conditions
- Immigrants -- Family relationships -- United States
- Immigrants -- Family relationships -- Vietnam
- Money -- Social aspects -- United States
- Money -- Social aspects -- Vietnam
- Families -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Families -- Economic aspects -- Vietnam
- Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- United States
- Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- Vietnam
- Familles -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis
- Familles -- Aspect économique -- Viêt-nam
- Transnationalisme -- Aspect social -- États-Unis
- Transnationalisme -- Aspect social -- Viêt-nam
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Families -- Economic aspects
- Immigrants -- Family relationships
- Money -- Social aspects
- Vietnamese -- Economic conditions
- Vietnamese -- Social conditions
- United States
- Vietnam
- 305.8959 305.895922073
- E184 .V53 .T45 2014
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Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations; 1. Six Tales of Migrant Money; 2. The Making of a Transnational Expenditure Cascade; 3. Money as a Currency of Care; 4. The Migrant Provider Role; 5. The American Dream in Vietnam; 6. Compensatory Consumption; 7. Emulative Consumption; 8. The Cyclical Entrenchment of Monetary Habits; 9. The High Price of Esteem Consumption; 10. Tall Promises; Conclusion: Special Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families; Appendix: Methodology and Interviewees; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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.
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