To be emplaced : Fuzhounese migration and the geography of desire -- Stepping out : contesting the moral career from peasant to overseas Chinese -- Snakeheads and paper trails : the making of exits -- Bad subjects : human smuggling, legality, and the problem of entrance -- For use in heaven or hell : the circulation of the U.S. dollar among gods, ghosts, and ancestors -- Partings and returns : gender, kinship, and the mediation of renqing
Summary
Ethnographic study of transnational migration from rural China to the U.S. and the systems of value and exchange that emerge from this migration
