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Global migrants, local lives : travel and transformation in rural Bangladesh / Katy Gardner.
Van Pelt Library HN690.6.A8 G37 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardner, Katy, 1964-
- Series:
- Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Return migration.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Bangladesh--Rural conditions.
- Bangladesh.
- Rural conditions.
- Bangladesh--Emigration and immigration.
- Return migration--Bangladesh.
- Physical Description:
- x, 301 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Katy Gardner looks at the 'sending' communities (neglected by academic research) and covers major aspects of Bangladeshi life (land, family structure, marriage, and religion) to show how out-migration has become a central economic and social resource--the route to social, as well as physical, mobility, transforming those who gain access to it. At the heart of this important text is a presentation of the dynamic nature of migration and the possibility of self-transformation it holds for migrant cultures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198279191
- OCLC:
- 30892656
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