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Financializing Poverty

Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance

by Sohini Kar
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor—especially...
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Social Forces and States

Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico

by Judith Teichman
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012

With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels of inequality are likely to produce high levels...
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Intra-Industry Trade

Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Political Economy

by Cameron Thies, Timothy M. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015

Intra-Industry Trade calls for us to rethink what trade most often looks like and how it shapes global institutions, fostering peace among states. Cameron G. Thies and Timothy M. Peterson argue that our understanding of trade has not kept pace with its changing nature in the 21st century; existing...
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The Scramble for Citizens

Dual Nationality and State Competition for Immigrants

by David Cook-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

It is commonly assumed that there is an enduring link between individuals and their countries of citizenship. Plural citizenship is therefore viewed with skepticism, if not outright suspicion. But the effects of widespread global migration belie common assumptions, and the connection between individuals...
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Decentering Citizenship

Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea

by Hae Yeon Choo
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016

Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants' struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, wives of South Korean men claiming rights as mothers, and hostesses at American military clubs who are excluded from claims—unless they claim to be victims...
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The Gray Zone

Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe

by Gregory Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how "taking action" against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the "gray zone", a space where legal and policy prescriptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011

Symbolic resources affect social, cultural, and economic development. The value of being "Made in America" or "Made in Italy," for example, depends not only on the material advantages each place offers but also on the symbolic resources embedded in those places of production. Drawing...
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Bureaucratic Intimacies

Translating Human Rights in Turkey

by Elif M. Babül
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record...
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Help or Harm

The Human Security Effects of International NGOs

by Amanda Murdie
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014

When do international non-governmental organizations like Oxfam or Human Rights Watch actually work? Help or Harm: The Human Security Effects of International NGOs answers this question by offering the first comprehensive framework for understanding the effects of the international non-governmental...
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Networks in Tropical Medicine

Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890–1930

by Deborah Neill
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book shows that this transnational collaboration in a context of European colonialism,...
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Circles of Compensation

Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan

by Kent E. Calder
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Japan grew explosively and consistently for more than a century, from the Meiji Restoration until the collapse of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. Since then, it has been unable to restart its economic engine and respond to globalization. How could the same political–economic system produce...
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Life Behind the Lobby

Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream

by Pawan Dhingra
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012

Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and—although they are not all related—seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most of these motel owners arrived in the United...
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Constructing East Asia

Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945

by Aaron Stephen Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013

The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931–1945. Challenging the status...
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The Strange Child

Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan

by Andrea Gevurtz Arai
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016

The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s gave rise to "the child problem," a powerful discourse of social anxiety that refocused concerns about precarious economic futures and shifting ideologies of national identity onto the young. Andrea Gevurtz...
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