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Author |
: Li Zhang |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804742061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804742065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strangers in the City by : Li Zhang
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population," have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.
Author |
: Bruce Whitehouse |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2012-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253000750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253000750 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Migrants and Strangers in an African City by : Bruce Whitehouse
In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.
Author |
: Andrew M. Gardner |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2011-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801462191 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801462193 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of Strangers by : Andrew M. Gardner
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, that organizes the flow of migrants from South Asia to the Gulf states and contractually links each laborer to a specific citizen or institution. In order to remain in Bahrain, the worker is almost entirely dependent on his sponsor's goodwill. The nature of this relationship, Gardner contends, often leads to exploitation and sometimes violence. Through extensive observation and interviews Gardner focuses on three groups in Bahrain: the unskilled Indian laborers who make up the most substantial portion of the foreign workforce on the island; the country's entrepreneurial and professional Indian middle class; and Bahraini state and citizenry. He contends that the social segregation and structural violence produced by Bahrain's kafala system result from a strategic arrangement by which the state insulates citizens from the global and neoliberal flows that, paradoxically, are central to the nation's intended path to the future. City of Strangers contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the states of the Arabian Peninsula and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization.
Author |
: Michael Casey |
Publisher |
: Paraclete Press |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781557259509 |
ISBN-13 |
: 155725950X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strangers to the City by : Michael Casey
Michael Casey, a monk and scholar who has been publishing his wise teachings on the Rule of St. Benedict for decades, turns to the particular Benedictine values that he considers most urgent for Christians to incorporate into their lives today. Eloquent and incisive, Casey invites readers to accept that gospel living - seen in the light of the Rule - involves accepting the challenge of being different from the secular culture around us. He encourages readers to set clear goals and objectives, to be honest about the practical ways in which priorities may have to change to meet these goals, and to have the courage to implement these changes both daily and for the future. Casey presents thoughtful reflections on the beliefs and values of asceticism, silence, leisure, reading, chastity, and poverty - putting these traditional Benedictine values into the context of modern life and the spiritual aspirations of people today. Strangers to the City is a book for all who are interested in learning more about the dynamics of spiritual growth from the monastic experience.
Author |
: Miri Rubin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2020-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108481236 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110848123X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities of Strangers by : Miri Rubin
Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.
Author |
: Jianli Zhao |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0815338031 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780815338031 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strangers in the City by : Jianli Zhao
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Louise Millar |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2016-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476760155 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476760152 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of Strangers by : Louise Millar
From the author of Accidents Happen, The Hidden Girl, and The Playdate—called “a supremely accomplished debut thriller by a writer to watch” (Booklist, starred review)—comes a new, heart-pounding novel about a journalist set on discovering the identity of a stranger who has turned her life upside down. When Grace and her childhood sweetheart Mac come home from their honeymoon in Thailand, they’re shocked to find a dead body beside their pile of unopened wedding presents. The police are unable to ID the man, so it is assumed that he was a burglar who died from natural causes. Little do they know that evidence for a rather different story is hidden right beneath their apartment… Three months later, Grace finds a card that, in place of well wishes, bears the message: “That man was Lucian Grabole.” A newspaper reporter fearing for her job, Grace lands on an idea that could answer some questions, and save her career as well. She’ll pitch a story to her boss called “Who was the man in my kitchen?” Soon Grace is trekking across Europe, talking to strangers and piecing together clues as she tries to unravel the mystery of who Lucian Grabole was, and why he met such a macabre end. Suddenly, with two more deaths linked to the case, it becomes clear that Grabole most certainly did not die a natural death. And the answer to the mystery of who the killer is, and why, lies back in Grace’s apartment...
Author |
: Ian MacKenzie |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2009-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781409076964 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1409076962 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of Strangers by : Ian MacKenzie
Paul Metzger's life is in a state of disrepair; a writer in his mid-thirties, he is divorced and underacheiving. One winter afternoon he travels into New York to visit three people; an elder half-brother who wants little to do with him; a disgraced, dying father, once infamous as a Nazi sympathiser; and an ex-wife whom Paul still loves. But Paul soon realises that he is being watched, and it is this fourth, unplanned and violent, encounter that will chanage more than one life, forever.
Author |
: Amy Stanley |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2020-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501188541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501188542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stranger in the Shogun's City by : Amy Stanley
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).
Author |
: Michael Russell |
Publisher |
: Avon Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1847563473 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781847563477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The City of Strangers by : Michael Russell
A brutal murder in middle-class Dublin. The unexplained death of an Irish diplomat in New York. Detective Sergeant Stefan Gillespie encounters murder, kidnap and terror on the streets of Dublin and New York, on the eve of the Second World War.