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Voyages : from Tongan villages to American suburbs /

This book documents an instance of one of the most momentous social phenomena of the late twentieth century: the mass migration of the world's population from agricultural ex-colonies and ex-protectorates to the industrial world. Cathy A. Small provides the poignant perspective of one extended...

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Main Author: Small, Cathy.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Subjects and Genres:
Tongans > Social conditions.
Tongans > United States.
Emigration and immigration.
Acculturation.
Tongans.
Einwanderer
Landleben
Stadtleben
Auswanderung
Tongaischer Einwanderer
Kulturwandel
Kulturelle Identität.
Soziale Situation
Migratie (demografie)
Tongiens > États-Unis.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Estados Unidos > Emigración e inmigración.
United States.
Tonga
USA.
Tonga > Émigration et immigration.
Tonga > Historia.
Islas del pacífico > Aspectos sociales.
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Table of Contents:
  • Departure. 1. Portrait of a Migrating Village
  • 2. Why Migrate?
  • - II. Arrivals. 3. Coming to America
  • 4. One Family's Story
  • 5. Palu, the One Who Left
  • 6. An Anthropologists over Time
  • - III. Returns. 7. Going Home: Tongan Village Life in the 1990s
  • 8. Distant Family
  • 9. Finau, the One Who Stayed
  • 10. Tradition
  • - IV. Travels. 11. The Meanings of Tongan Migration
  • 12. Anthropology in a Transnational World
  • - App. Tongan Population and Migration Estimates.

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