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Class inequality in the global city :

1137436158 (electronic bk.)

9781137436153 (electronic bk.)

113743614X

9781137436146

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Class inequality in the global city :

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migrants, workers and cosmopolitanism in Singapore /

Junjia Ye

1 online resource (vii, 193 pages.)

Global diversities

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Globalizing Class, Migration and Divisions of Labour in the City-State; 1 Researching Inequality in the Global City; 2 Situating Class in Singapore: State Development and Labour; 3 Migrating to Singapore: Bangladeshi Men; 4 Commuting to Singapore: Johorean Malaysians; 5 Constructing Cosmopolitanism in Singapore: Financial Professionals; Concluding Reflections; Notes; References; Index

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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

Class inequality in the global city.

9781137436146

Cosmopolitanism-- Singapore.

Equality-- Singapore.

Immigrants-- Singapore.

Social classes-- Singapore.

Working class-- Singapore.

Singapore, Economic conditions.

Singapore, Social conditions.

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SOC-- 020000

SOC-- 031000

Ye, Junjia,1981-

Ohio Library and Information Network.

20161111051422.1

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