Strangers in the City
Title | Strangers in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Li Zhang |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2002-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0804779341 |
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control. This book traces the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government’s household registration system. The author explores this important social change through a detailed ethnographic account of the construction, destruction, and eventual reconstruction of the largest migrant community in Beijing. She focuses on the informal privatization of space and power in this community through analyzing the ways migrant leaders build their power base by controlling housing and market spaces and mobilizing social networks. The author argues that to gain a deeper understanding of recent Chinese social and political transformations, one must examine not only to what extent state power still dominates everyday social life, but also how the aims and methods of late socialist governance change under new social and economic conditions. In revealing the complexities and uncertainties of the shifting power and social relations in post-Mao China, this book challenges the common notion that sees recent changes as an inevitable move toward liberal capitalism and democracy.
Strangers to the City
Title | Strangers to the City PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Casey |
Publisher | Paraclete Press |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 155725950X |
Michael Casey, a monk and scholar who has been publishing his wise teachings on the Rule of St. Benedict for decades, turns to the particular Benedictine values that he considers most urgent for Christians to incorporate into their lives today. Eloquent and incisive, Casey invites readers to accept that gospel living - seen in the light of the Rule - involves accepting the challenge of being different from the secular culture around us. He encourages readers to set clear goals and objectives, to be honest about the practical ways in which priorities may have to change to meet these goals, and to have the courage to implement these changes both daily and for the future. Casey presents thoughtful reflections on the beliefs and values of asceticism, silence, leisure, reading, chastity, and poverty - putting these traditional Benedictine values into the context of modern life and the spiritual aspirations of people today. Strangers to the City is a book for all who are interested in learning more about the dynamics of spiritual growth from the monastic experience.
Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Title | Migrants and Strangers in an African City PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Whitehouse |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2012-03-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253000750 |
In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.
City of Strangers
Title | City of Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew M. Gardner |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2011-05-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0801462193 |
In City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Like all the petroleum-rich states of the Persian Gulf, Bahrain hosts an extraordinarily large population of transmigrant laborers. Guest workers, who make up nearly half of the country's population, have long labored under a sponsorship system, the kafala, that organizes the flow of migrants from South Asia to the Gulf states and contractually links each laborer to a specific citizen or institution. In order to remain in Bahrain, the worker is almost entirely dependent on his sponsor's goodwill. The nature of this relationship, Gardner contends, often leads to exploitation and sometimes violence. Through extensive observation and interviews Gardner focuses on three groups in Bahrain: the unskilled Indian laborers who make up the most substantial portion of the foreign workforce on the island; the country's entrepreneurial and professional Indian middle class; and Bahraini state and citizenry. He contends that the social segregation and structural violence produced by Bahrain's kafala system result from a strategic arrangement by which the state insulates citizens from the global and neoliberal flows that, paradoxically, are central to the nation's intended path to the future. City of Strangers contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the states of the Arabian Peninsula and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization.
Cities of Strangers
Title | Cities of Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Miri Rubin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2020-03-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110848123X |
Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.
Strangers in the City
Title | Strangers in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Jianli Zhao |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780815338031 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The City of Strangers
Title | The City of Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Russell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 567 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | 9781471257452 |
Garda Sergeant Stefan Gillespie is sent to America to bring a killer to justice, but his mission soon becomes part of an increasingly personal struggle. A chance encounter with an old friend draws him deep into a chilling network of conspiracy, espionage and terror. He becomes more involved than he should and discovers that the war that is looming in Europe is already being played out here on the streets, with deadly consequences. In this time when people must make a stand for what they believe in, the stakes for Stefan Gillespie, and everything he holds dear, couldn't be higher.