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Currencies of imagination : channeling money and chasing mobility in Vietnam
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- Summary
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"This book examines the sociocultural dynamics of migration and remittance flows between Vietnam and the United States since 1975"--
Details
- Creator
- Ivan V. Small
- Included Title
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- JSTOR ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2018
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9781501716904, 1501716875, 9781501716874, 1501716883, 9781501716898, 1501716891, 1501716905, 9781501716881
- OCLC
- on1080078398, on1031425971
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: money, gifts, and flows -- The dangerous gift -- Saigon, overlaid by Ho Chi Minh : capitalist desires and deferrals -- Coastal flows & hypothetical horizons -- The beautiful, tired country -- Crossing the bridge home -- Conclusion : not yet enough : mobility and its malcontents
Subjects
- Vietnamese -- United States -- Economic conditions.
- Vietnamese -- United States -- Social conditions.
- Emigrant remittances -- Vietnam.
- Vietnam -- Economic conditions -- 1975-
- Immigrants -- Family relationships -- Vietnam.
- Immigrants -- Family relationships -- United States.
- Money -- Social aspects -- Vietnam.
- Money -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Families -- Economic aspects -- Vietnam.
- Families -- Economic aspects -- United States.
- Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- Vietnam.