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Cruising in the Global Economy

Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea

By: Christine B.N. Chin

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Cruising in the Global Economy

Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea

By: Christine B.N. Chin

The business of cruise tourism in recent years has commanded news media attention especially on issues of environmental pollution, passenger safety and worker rights, yet consumer interest in cruise vacations has not been adversely affected by negative publicity and it continues to grow at an average of 8-9% per annum. This unique mode of business focusing on the production and consumption of pleasure at sea and on land offers us an unprecedented opportunity to analyze the manner in which ongoing economic restructuring processes to bring about free markets in goods, services and labour can and does involve both life on land and at sea. This interdisciplinary analysis elicits an examination of states' relationship to the maritime regulatory structure governing ship ownership, management and operations, cruise lines' business strategies, development of port communities to capture cruise-related revenue, changing leisure consumption patterns and meanings, and the employment of foreign migrant workers as seafarers.

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Routledge

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1351947176

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Cosmopolitan Sex Workers

Women and Migration in a Global City

By: Christine B.N. Chin

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Women and Migration in a Global City

By: Christine B.N. Chin

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is a groundbreaking look into the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Through a new, innovative framework, Christine B.N. Chin shows that as neoliberal economic restructuring processes create pathways connecting major cities throughout the world, competition and collaboration between cities creates new avenues for the movement of people, services and goods. Loosely organized networks of migrant labor grow in tandem with professional-managerial classes, and sex workers migrate to different parts of cities, depending on the location of the clientele to which they cater. But while global cities create economic opportunities for migrants (and depend on the labor they provide), states react with new forms of securitization and surveillance. As a result, migrants must negotiate between appropriating and subverting the ideas that inform global economic restructuring. Chin argues that migration allows women to develop intercultural skills that help them to make these negotiations. Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is innovative not only in its focus on non-trafficked women, but in its analysis of the complex relationship between global economic processes and migration for sex work. Through fascinating interviews with sex workers in Kuala Lumpur, Chin shows that sex work can provide women with the means of earning income for families, for education, and even for their own businesses. It also allows women the means to travel the world - a form of cosmopolitanism "from below.

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Oxford University Press

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0199890927

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In Service and Servitude

Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "modernity" Project

By: Christine B. N. Chin

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In Service and Servitude

Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "modernity" Project

By: Christine B. N. Chin

Examining how the shared interests of state elites and the middle classes rationalize mistreatment of domestic workers, the author argues that the "premodern" exploitation of migrant domestic workers is at odds with the global expansion of open markets and free trade.

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Columbia University Press

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0231109873

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9780231109871

Frontier Livelihoods

Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

By: Sarah Turner,Christine Bonnin,Jean Michaud

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Frontier Livelihoods

Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands

By: Sarah Turner,Christine Bonnin,Jean Michaud

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods about which governments often know little. The product of wide-ranging research over many years, Frontier Livelihoods bridges the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular Southeast Asia by examining the agency, dynamics, and resilience of livelihoods adopted by Hmong communities in Vietnam and in China’s Yunnan Province. It covers the reactions to state modernization projects among this ethnic group in two separate national jurisdictions and contributes to a growing body of literature on cross-border relationships between ethnic minorities in the borderlands of China and its neighbors and in Southeast Asia more broadly.

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University of Washington Press

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029580596X

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9780295805962

In Service and Servitude

Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "modernity" Project

By: Christine B. N. Chin

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Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "modernity" Project

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Cruising in the Global Economy

Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea

By: Christine B.N. Chin

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Cruising in the Global Economy

Cruising in the Global Economy

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers

In Service and Servitude

In Service and Servitude

Frontier Livelihoods

Frontier Livelihoods

In Service and Servitude

In Service and Servitude

Cruising in the Global Economy

Cruising in the Global Economy

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