Globalization and inequality in emerging societies / [edited by] Boike Rehbein.

Other author Rehbein, Boike.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionxii, 283 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction / B. Rehbein -- PART I: REGIONAL INEQUALITIES -- The Persistence of Socio-Cultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia / V. Houben & B. Rehbein -- Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia / H. Khondker -- Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America : The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism / R. Elizaga -- PART II: NATIONAL INEQUALITIES -- For a Critical Theory of Modernization : Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal? / J. Souza -- The Militarization of Urban Marginality : Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis / L. Wacquant -- Global Expansion of Capitalism, Inequality and Social Movements : The Iranian Case / S. Fadaee -- Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares : Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria / O. Adesina -- Higher Education in Russia : Is There a Way out of a Neoliberal Impasse? / A. Magun -- PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INEQUALITIES -- Emerging Powers Development, Global Economic Crisis and Value Chains Restructuring / G. Antonelli -- Global and National Elites in South America : Limited Transnationalization Processes and the Persistence of Inequality / A. Pelfini -- Access of Highly Skilled Migrants to Transnational Labour Markets : Is Class Formation Transcending National Divides? / A. Weiss & S. Mensah -- Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses : The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia / N. Piper & S. Rother -- Global Inequalities : Local Hierarchies : Peruvian Migrants' Labour Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile / C. Mora -- Conclusion / J. Pieterse.
Abstract "This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism"-- Provided by publisher.
General noteIncludes index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011047517
ISBN9780230299733 (hardback)

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