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BL
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600229
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b429448
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| Main Entry
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Ye, Junjia,1981-
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| Title & Author
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Class inequality in the global city : : migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore /\ Junjia Ye
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| Series Statement
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Global diversities
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1 online resource (vii, 193 pages.)
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| ISBN
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9781137436153 (electronic bk.)
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: 1137436158 (electronic bk.)
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9781137436146
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113743614X
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Globalizing Class, Migration and Divisions of Labour in the City-State; 1 Researching Inequality in the Global City; 2 Situating Class in Singapore: State Development and Labour; 3 Migrating to Singapore: Bangladeshi Men; 4 Commuting to Singapore: Johorean Malaysians; 5 Constructing Cosmopolitanism in Singapore: Financial Professionals; Concluding Reflections; Notes; References; Index
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| Abstract
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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
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Social classes-- Singapore.
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Equality-- Singapore.
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Immigrants-- Singapore.
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Working class-- Singapore.
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Cosmopolitanism-- Singapore.
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Singapore, Social conditions.
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Singapore, Economic conditions.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.5095957
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HN700.67.Z9S652 2016
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| Added Entry
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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