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Class inequality in the global city = migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Class inequality in the global city/ by Junjia Ye.
Reminder of title:	migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore /
Author:	Ye, Junjia.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	vii, 193 p. :digital ; : 23 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Social classes - Singapore. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137436153
ISBN:	9781137436153

Class inequality in the global city = migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore /
Ye, Junjia.

Class inequality in the global citymigrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore /[electronic resource] :by Junjia Ye. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - vii, 193 p. :digital ;23 cm. - Global diversities. - Global diversities..

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.

ISBN: 9781137436153

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137436153doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

943164
Social classes
--Singapore.

LC Class. No.: HN700.67.Z9

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5095957

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