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Engages with developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men - a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston - in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations.

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"Reading this book transported me, in ways that few academic texts can ... Jackson's insightful analysis is woven into the life-stories, his thesis permeating the whole text ... The Wherewithal of Life is anthropology of migration par excellence." -- Luke de Noronha Border Criminologies

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Preamble Emmanuel Roberto Ibrahim Postscript Appendix: Existential Mobility Acknowledgments Notes Index

The Wherewithal of Life

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 10 August 2013
      ISBN-13 9780520276727
      978-0520276727
      ISBN-10 0520276728

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Engages with developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men - a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston - in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations.

      Trade Review
      "Reading this book transported me, in ways that few academic texts can ... Jackson's insightful analysis is woven into the life-stories, his thesis permeating the whole text ... The Wherewithal of Life is anthropology of migration par excellence." -- Luke de Noronha Border Criminologies

      Table of Contents
      Preamble Emmanuel Roberto Ibrahim Postscript Appendix: Existential Mobility Acknowledgments Notes Index

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