Class Inequality in the Global City - Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Global Diversities
Release date:	February 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	J. Ye
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	193
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-43614-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > Social mobility Promotions
LSN:	1-137-43614-X
Barcode:	9781137436146

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