The Resource Class inequality in the global city : migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore, Junjia Ye
Class inequality in the global city : migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore, Junjia Ye
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The item Class inequality in the global city : migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore, Junjia Ye represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 193 pages.)
- Contents
-
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Globalizing Class, Migration and Divisions of Labour in the City-State; 1 Researching Inequality in the Global City; 2 Situating Class in Singapore: State Development and Labour; 3 Migrating to Singapore: Bangladeshi Men; 4 Commuting to Singapore: Johorean Malaysians; 5 Constructing Cosmopolitanism in Singapore: Financial Professionals; Concluding Reflections; Notes; References; Index
- Isbn
- 9781137436153
- Label
- Class inequality in the global city : migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore
- Title
- Class inequality in the global city
- Title remainder
- migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore
- Statement of responsibility
- Junjia Ye
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1981-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ye, Junjia
- Dewey number
- 305.5095957
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HN700.67.Z9
- LC item number
- S652 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Global diversities
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Social classes
- Equality
- Immigrants
- Working class
- Cosmopolitanism
- Singapore
- Singapore
- Label
- Class inequality in the global city : migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore, Junjia Ye
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Globalizing Class, Migration and Divisions of Labour in the City-State; 1 Researching Inequality in the Global City; 2 Situating Class in Singapore: State Development and Labour; 3 Migrating to Singapore: Bangladeshi Men; 4 Commuting to Singapore: Johorean Malaysians; 5 Constructing Cosmopolitanism in Singapore: Financial Professionals; Concluding Reflections; Notes; References; Index
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 193 pages.)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781137436153
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40026014796
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- SPR950004719
- ocn950004719
- Label
- Class inequality in the global city : migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore, Junjia Ye
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Globalizing Class, Migration and Divisions of Labour in the City-State; 1 Researching Inequality in the Global City; 2 Situating Class in Singapore: State Development and Labour; 3 Migrating to Singapore: Bangladeshi Men; 4 Commuting to Singapore: Johorean Malaysians; 5 Constructing Cosmopolitanism in Singapore: Financial Professionals; Concluding Reflections; Notes; References; Index
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 193 pages.)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781137436153
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40026014796
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- SPR950004719
- ocn950004719
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