Jacob Meerman

Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities (eBook, ePUB)

Slow roads to progress

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book concentrates on socially excluded minorities looking at why such groups remain among "the poorest of the poor" and focusing on US African Americans, Japan's Burakumin, Afro-Cubans, the Dalits of India, and the Quechua and Aymara of Bolivia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135972806
• Artikelnr.: 47893116

Autorenporträt

Jacob Meerman, a Chicago Ph.D. in economics, is a Scholar in Residence at American University, Washington D.C. He has held several academic positions, most recently as visiting professor at the National University of Malaysia. During his quarter century with the World Bank, he carried out a pioneering study of who benefits from government expenditure and has extensive experience in developing projects including the main trunk highway in Bolivia, irrigation in Madagascar, and export crops in Rwanda.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Theory
1. Introduction
2. Stigmatized
Ranked
Ethnic
Low Status
Involuntary Minorities
3. A Mobility Model for Stigmatized
Ranked
Ethnic
Low Status
Involuntary Minorities
Part 2: Case Studies
4. The Dalits and Human Rights: The Indian Dilemma
5. The Mobility of Japan's Bukakumin
6. The Cuban Case: Can Stateways Change Folkways?
7. Bolivia's Highland Indians: Oppressed by not Conquered
8. US African Americans
Part 3: Comparisons
9. Comparisons and Epilogue.