| 书目名称 | Ghost Lives of the Pendatang | | 副标题 | Informality and Cosm | | 编辑 | Parthiban Muniandy | | 视频video | | | 概述 | An ethnographic study of migrants and refugees living in global cities of Southeast Asia.Provides insights into lives of displaced Asian communities living under the shadow of globalization.Focuses al | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Macmillan Studies on Human Rights in Asia | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book is an ethnographic study of migrants, refugees and ‘temporary’ people in Malaysia, incorporating narratives, personal stories, and observations of everyday life in Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown, Penang. Rather than focusing on specific migrant communities or refugee ‘camps’, the book takes subaltern cosmopolitanism as its central lens to look at how different and diverse communities of non-citizen ‘.pendatang.’ (aliens) co-habit, work and live together in Malaysia.. .Urban centers in Malaysia offer the space for informality that allow stateless and undocumented people to seek out opportunities, while also finding ways to assimilate or even ‘disappear’ into the fabric of society. The book focuses on the notion of ‘contaminations’, rather than migration or migrants, to underscore one of the most important findings of the ethnographic study – that migrant life in Malaysia is critically integral, embedded and interwoven into the everyday life in the city - shaping and affecting all aspects of daily life from production and supply chains, food service networks, cultural and religious practices, waste and recycling work, to more intimate and private contexts such as romantic rel | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Temporary Migration in Malaysia; Displacement and Refugees in Southeast Asia; Urban Refugees in Asia; M | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6200-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-981-33-6202-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-33-6200-0Series ISSN 2752-4310 Series E-ISSN 2752-4329 | | issn_series | 2752-4310 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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