Strangers in the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers in the City write by Li Zhang. This book was released on 2001. Strangers in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population," have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.
Strangers to the City
Strangers to the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers to the City write by Michael Casey. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Strangers to the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Migrants and Strangers in an African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrants and Strangers in an African City write by Bruce Whitehouse. This book was released on 2012-03-14. Migrants and Strangers in an African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
City of Strangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Strangers write by Andrew M. Gardner. This book was released on 2011-05-02. City of Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Cities of Strangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities of Strangers write by Miri Rubin. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Cities of Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.
