Beschreibung:
Ethnographic study of transnational migration from rural China to the U.S. and the systems of value and exchange that emerge from this migration.
Acknowledgments ixNotes on Orthography and Names xiiiIntroduction 1Part I. Edgy Dispositions 231. To Be Emplaced: Fuzhounese Migration and the Geography of Desire 312. Stepping Out: Contesting the Moral Career from Peasant to Overseas Chinese 59Part II. Exits and Entrances 1013. Snakeheads and Paper Trails: The Making of Exits 1074. Bad Subjects: Human Smuggling, Legality, and the Problem of Entrance 141Part III. Debts and Diversions 1655. For Use in Heaven or Hell: The Circulation of the U.S. Dollar among Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors 1716. Partings and Returns: Gender, Kinship, and the Mediation of Renqing 217Conclusion: When Fortune Flows 257Notes 269Bibliography 295Index 321