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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Grove Atlantic
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB34113979
    ISBN: 9780802189356
    Content: " Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees , is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer , in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives."
    Content: Rezension(1): " Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer , which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for First Novel, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance . He teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles." Rezension(2): " Maxine Hong Kingston :“, magnificent feat of storytelling. The Sympathizer is a novel of literary, historical, and political importance." Rezension(3): " Ron Charles, Washington Post :“,xtraordinary . Surely a new classic of war fiction." Rezension(4): " John Warner, Chicago Tribune :“,o skillfully and brilliantly executed that I cannot believe this is a first novel." Rezension(5): " Tricia Springstubb, Cleveland Plain Dealer :“,elcome a unique new voice to the literary chorus . dazzles on all fronts." Rezension(6): " Wall Street Journal :“,ntelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny." Rezension(7): " Nancy Pearl :“, very special, important, brilliant novel . I don't say brilliant about a lot of books, but this is a brilliant book . A fabulous book . that everyone should read." Rezension(8): " Akhil Sharma, Guardian :“,remendously funny . reminded me of how big books can be." Rezension(9): " Laura Miller, Slate :"
    Language: English
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  • 2
    UID:
    gbv_1858724481
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (243 p) , illustrations
    ISBN: 9789811973840 , 9811973849
    Content: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Precarious Migrants: An Outbreak of Inequality -- The Relationship Between Outbreak and Communicative Inequalities -- Precarities as Ecological -- Health Information -- Digital Spaces -- Vaccines -- Health Equity and Precarious Migrants -- References -- 2 The Role of Contemporary Neoliberal Government Policies in the Erosion of Migrant Labor Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Examination of Executive, Legislative and Judicial Trends in India and the United States
    Content: Caste Inequities and the Informal Labor Market in India -- Migrant Workers' Health Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Undocumented Labor in the United States -- Systemic Barriers to Undocumented Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Discussion -- References -- 3 The COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on the Health of Rohingya Refugees -- COVID-19 and Refugee Health -- Rohingya Health -- Culture-Centered Approach -- Method -- Findings -- Struggles with Food -- Struggles Accessing Masks and Hand Sanitizers -- Scarcity of Rohingya Interpreters for Communication -- Long Waiting Time -- Discussion
    Content: Voices of Distressed Migrants -- Recruitment -- Data Gathering -- Analysis -- Findings -- When Income Stops and Loans Run Out -- Home Is Health, and the Stigma of the Infected City -- Healthier at Home -- Home to Stigma -- Being Triple-Marginalized -- References -- 6 Extreme (Im)mobility and Mental Health Inequalities: Migrant Construction Workers in Singapore During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Pandemic Measures for Migrant Construction Workers -- Communicative Inequality and the Culture-Centered Approach -- Extreme (Im)mobility -- Mental Health Interventions -- Living Conditions
    Content: Family and Precarity -- Agentic Community Building -- Ecological Precarities as Health Violence -- References -- 7 Indonesian Domestic Workers in Malaysia During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Introduction -- Women, Patriarchal System and Gender-Based Inequality -- Foreign Domestic Workers -- Covid-19 Challenges and Struggles Experienced by Domestic Workers -- Dysfunctional Migration Governance -- Recognition of Women and Identity of 'Domestic Work' -- Domestic Work as Cultural Threat? -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Conducting Digital Ethnography with Precarious Migrant Workers in a Pandemic
    Content: This book looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants globally who bear disproportionate burdens of health disparities. Centering the voices of migrants as anchors for theorizing health, the chapters adopt an array of decolonizing and interventionist methodologies that offer conceptual communicative resources for re-organizing economics, politics, culture, and society in logics of care. Each chapter focuses on the health of migrants during the pandemic, highlighting the role of communication in amplifying and solving the health crisis experienced by migrants. The chapters draw together various communicative resources and practices tied to migrant negotiations of precarity and exclusion. Health is situated amidst the forces of authoritarianism, disinformation, hate, and exploitation targeting migrant bodies. The book builds a narrative archive witnessing this fundamental geopolitical rupture in the 21st century, documenting the violence built into the zeitgeist of labor exploitation amidst neoliberal transformations, situating health with the extractive and exploitative forms of organizing migrant labor. The book is essential reading for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses for scholars studying critical and global health, development, and participatory communication, migration, globalization, international and intercultural communication interested in the questions of precarity and marginality of health during pandemics. Satveer Kaur-Gill is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College. Broadly, Satveer studies the role communication plays in bridging health equity for populations facing health disparities. Mohan J Dutta is Dean's Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Culture-centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Massey University. He teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in healthcare, health activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and participatory social change. Currently, Mohan sits on the editorial board of seven journals. He is the Editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research and the Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Health Communication
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Introduction , References -- 4 Listening for Erasures as Method in Making Sense of Health Disparities: Culture-Centered Constructions of Health Among Refugees -- COVID-19 and Refugees at the Margins -- Culture Centered Approach -- Method -- Results -- Communicative Gaps -- Structural Inequalities -- Communicative Agency -- Discussion -- References -- 5 The Implications of Being Thrice-Marginalized: Work Migrants in India During the Coronavirus Lockdown -- The Health Consequences of Distress Migration -- Stresses of the Pandemic -- The Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) -- Power Dimensions -- Method
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789811973833
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9811973830
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789811973833
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789811973833
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 ISBN 9789811973833
    Language: English
    Subjects: Sociology
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    Keywords: Electronic books
    Author information: Dutta, Mohan J.
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