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Women As Fish: Physical Movement And Social Mobility In Contemporary Vietnam, Linh Khanh Nguyen
Women As Fish: Physical Movement And Social Mobility In Contemporary Vietnam, Linh Khanh Nguyen
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This dissertation examines the changing rurality and the profound social stratification in contemporary Vietnam through the lens of rural-to-rural female migration. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in a rural offshore fishing community in northern Vietnam called Hải Thành. I study the migration of two groups of women: 1) transnational women, who are young Hải Thành girls that marry Taiwanese and South Korean men, and migrate to mostly rural areas in East Asia, and 2) translocal women, who are women from other rural Vietnamese communities who migrate to Hải Thành to marry local men. My dissertation analyzes …
"Women With No One": Community And Christianity In A Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter, Connie Etter
"Women With No One": Community And Christianity In A Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter, Connie Etter
Anthropology - Dissertations
This dissertation examines daily life and social service practices in a secular homeless shelter for women in Tamil Nadu, south India. The residents of the shelter have diverse backgrounds but local staff members and volunteers describe them collectively as "women with no one": unwed mothers, orphans, widows, women abandoned or abused by husbands and lovers, former sex workers, prisoners' wives, and women deemed mentally or physically unfit for marriage. Daily negotiations of belonging take place among this transient and diverse group of marginalized women and equally diverse and transnational care providers. The closed shelter campus provides an opportunity to query …
Prostitution And Changing Morality In The Frontier Cattle Towns Of Kansas, Isidor Wallimann, Carol Leonard
Prostitution And Changing Morality In The Frontier Cattle Towns Of Kansas, Isidor Wallimann, Carol Leonard
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