ISBN:
9780203068137
,
9780415813532
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 186 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in development, mobilities and migration
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gender, Mobilities and Livelihood Transformations: Comparing Indigenous People in China, India and Laos
DDC:
331.12/7095
Keywords:
Displacement (Psychology) Cross-cultural studies
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Indigenous peoples Cross-cultural studies Economic conditions
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Forced migration Cross-cultural studies Economic aspects
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Indigenous peoples Cross-cultural studies Ethnic identity
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Labor mobility Cross-cultural studies Social aspects
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Labor mobility -- Social aspects -- Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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Indigenous peoples -- Asia -- Economic conditions -- Cross-cultural studies
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Forced migration -- Economic aspects -- Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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Indigenous peoples -- Asia -- Ethnic identity -- Cross-cultural studies
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Displacement (Psychology) -- Asia -- Cross-cultural studies
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Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Asia Cross-cultural studies Emigration and immigration
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Economic aspects
Abstract:
In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how mobility is an inherent part of such changes. The book demonstrates how current neoliberal policies are making people increasingly on the move - whether voluntarily or forced, and whether individually, as family, or as whole communities - and how such mobility is changing the livelihoods of indigenous people, with particular
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Gender, Mobilities, and Livelihood Transformations; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; 1 Gender, mobilities, and livelihood transformations: an introduction; 2 Rethinking 'mobilities': exploring the linkages between development issues, marginalized groups, and gender; 3 Mobile livelihoods of ethnic minorities in socio-economic transformation in China: the case of Yunnan Province; 4 Chinese peasants in transition
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Exploring mobile livelihoods among tribal communities in Odisha, India: gendered insights and outcomes6 Mobility patterns and gendered practices among Soliga people in Karnataka, India; 7 Gender vulnerabilities of resettlement and restricted mobility of ethnic groups in northern Laos; 8 Concluding discussion; Index
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