The Wherewithal of Life Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being
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University of California Press, 2013.
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eBook
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1.
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9780520956810 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (272 pages)
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"The Wherewithal of Life engages with current 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 and ethical dilemmas of those migrating from the global south. Michael Jackson offers the first biographically based phenomenological account of migration and mobility, providing new insights into the various motives, tactics, dilemmas, dreams, and disappointments that characterize contemporary migration. It is argued that the quandaries of African or Mexican migrants are not unique to people moving between 'traditional' and 'modern' worlds. While more intensely felt by the young, seeking to find a way out of a world of limited opportunity and circumscribed values, the experiences of transition are familiar to us all, whatever our age, gender, ethnicity or social status - namely, the impossibility of calculating what one may lose in leaving a settled life or home place; what one may gain by risking oneself in an alien environment; the difficulty of striking a balance between personal fulfillment and the moral claims of kinship; and the struggle to know the difference between 'concrete' and 'abstract' utopias (the first reasonable and worth pursuing; the second hopelessly unattainable)."--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Jackson, M. (2013). The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being (1.). University of California Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jackson, Michael. 2013. The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being. University of California Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jackson, Michael. The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being University of California Press, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Jackson, Michael. The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being 1., University of California Press, 2013.

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