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  • Class inequality in the global city[electronic resource] :migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore /
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    [NT 15000414] null: 305.5095957
    [NT 47271] Title/Author: Class inequality in the global city : migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore // by Junjia Ye.
    作者: Ye, Junjia.
    出版者: London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, 2016.
    面页册数: vii, 193 p. : : digital ;; 23 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    标题: Social classes - Singapore.
    标题: Equality - Singapore.
    标题: Immigrants - Singapore.
    标题: Working class - Singapore.
    标题: Cosmopolitanism - Singapore.
    标题: Social Sciences.
    标题: Development Studies.
    标题: Asian Culture.
    标题: Sociology, general.
    标题: Sociology of Work.
    标题: Social Structure, Social Inequality.
    标题: Migration.
    ISBN: 9781137436153
    ISBN: 9781349683420
    [NT 15000229] null: In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve one's class standing, along with limitations in achieving such aims. Through the analysis of three different groups of workers in Singapore, Ye shows that cosmopolitanism is an exclusive and aspirational construct created through global and national development strategies, transnational migration and individual senses of identity. This dialectic relationship between class and cosmopolitanism is never free from power and is constituted through material and symbolic conditions, struggles and violence. Class is also constituted through 'the self' and lies at the very heart of different constructions of personhood as they intersect with gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality.
    电子资源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137436153
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