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Sandra Kurfürst
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Stefanie Wehner
(eds.)
Southeast Asian Transformations
Urban and Rural Developments in the 21st Century
Southeast Asia from multiple perspectives: covering the most important trajectories of development in the new millennium.
Sweet Home Chicago?
Mexican Migration and the Question of Belonging and Return
How do intentions of migrants to go back change over time? Focusing on elderly Mexicans in Chicago, this book explores issues of migration, home making and belonging in the context of global labour mobility.
Uwe H. Bittlingmayer
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Anne-Marie Grundmeier
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Reinhart Kößler
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Diana Sahrai
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Fereschta Sahrai
(eds.)
Education and Development in Afghanistan
Challenges and Prospects
A discussion on the ambivalent and contradictory dimensions of an educational driven development strategy on the case of Afghanistan.
Negotiations of the »New World«
The Omnipresence of »Global« as a Political Phenomenon
The use of »global« – this is the first book that engages with the use of the adjective »global« and uncovers it as the discursive negotiation of the notion of the »new world«.
Bonded Labour
Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century)
After slavery, indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap labour. This volume investigates global variants of bonded labour that exist until today.
Ethnicity as a Political Resource
Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods
Politics of ethnicity – this volume presents the first attempt to analyze ethnicity from an interdisciplinary angle in a comparative, global, and historical perspective.
Transatlantic Caribbean
Dialogues of People, Practices, Ideas
The book contributes to an understanding of the Caribbean in its long-term exchanges between people, practices and ideas in the Atlantic world.
Entangled Inequalities in Transnational Care Chains
Practices Across the Borders of Peru and Italy
This book explores the care practices and inequalities between individuals and households that go along with Peruvian migration to Italy and the migrants' introduction into home-based elderly care.
Hans-Martin Zademach
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Sebastian Hillebrand
(eds.)
Alternative Economies and Spaces
New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy
Economic spaces – Leading scholars discuss alternative modes of economic and social exchange, including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises.
Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge
Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Ecological Change
Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues. This book shows the human landscape of risk and uncertainty in a dynamic region.