Description: Insufficient Funds by Hung Cam Thai Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description This book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money. Publisher Description Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their poor, non-migrant family members give, receive, and spend money. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork with more than one hundred members of transnational families, Hung Cam Thai examines how and why immigrants, who largely earn low wages as hairdressers, cleaners, and other "invisible" workers, send home a substantial portion of their earnings, as well as spend lavishly on relatives during return trips. Extending beyond mere altruism, this spending is motivated by complex social obligations and the desire to gain self-worth despite their limited economic opportunities in the United States. At the same time, such remittances raise expectations for standards of living, producing a cascade effect that monetizes family relationships. Insufficient Funds powerfully illuminates these and other contradictions associated with money and its new meanings in an increasingly transnational world. Author Biography Hung Cam Thai is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at Pomona College, where he serves as Director of the Pacific Basin Institute. He is the author of For Better or for Worse: Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy (2008). Details ISBN 0804777322 ISBN-13 9780804777322 Title Insufficient Funds Author Hung Cam Thai Format Paperback Year 2014 Pages 304 Publisher Stanford University Press GE_Item_ID:78749448; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780804777322
Book Title: Insufficient Funds
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Insufficient Funds : the Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Development / Economic Development, Money & Monetary Policy, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 6.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.8 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author: Hung Cam Thai
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
