No Family Is an Island
(Part of the Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge Series)
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Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, Ilana Gershon investigates how and when the categories...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801478057
ISBN13:9780801478055
Release Date:May 2012
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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