Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Boike Rehbein

      Pages 1-7

3. Regional Inequalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Persistence of Sociocultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia

      • Vincent Houben, Boike Rehbein

      Pages 11-30

   3. Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia

      • Habibul Haque Khondker

      Pages 31-49

   4. Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America: The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism

      • Raquel Sosa Elízaga

      Pages 50-67

4. National Inequalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal? Towards a Critical Theory of Modernization

      • Jessé Souza

      Pages 71-91

   3. The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis

      • Loïc Wacquant

      Pages 92-117

   4. Global Expansion of Capitalism, Inequality and Social Movements: The Iranian Case

      • Simin Fadaee

      Pages 118-135

   5. Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares: Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria

      • Olutayo Charles Adesina

      Pages 136-147

   6. Higher Education in Russia: Is There a Way out of a Neoliberal Impasse?

      • Artemy Magun

      Pages 148-171

5. Transnational Inequalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Emerging Powers Development, Global Economic Crisis and Value Chains Restructuring

      • Gilberto Antonelli

      Pages 175-193

   3. Global and National Political Elites in South America: Limited Transnationalization Processes and the Persistence of Inequality

      • Alejandro Pelfini

      Pages 194-210

   4. Access of Highly-Skilled Migrants to Transnational Labor Markets: Is Class Formation Transcending National Divides?

      • Anja Weiß, Samuel N.-A. Mensah

      Pages 211-234

   5. Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia

      • Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother

      Pages 235-255

   6. Global Inequalities — Local Hierarchies, Peruvian Migrants’ Labor Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile

      • Claudia Mora

      Pages 256-269

   7. Conclusion: Globalization and Inequality

      • Jan Nederveen Pieterse

      Pages 270-275

6. Back Matter

   Pages 277-283

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This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.

• Chile
• critical theory
• development
• East Asia
• education
• globalization
• Hierarchie
• labor market
• mobility
• Nation
• Polis
• poverty
• social inequality
• Transnational
• transnationalization

• Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

  Boike Rehbein

OLUTAYO CHARLES ADESINA Professor in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria GILBERTO ANTONELLI Professor of Economics at the School of Development Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, Italy SIMIN FADAEE Assistant Professor for the Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany VINCENT HOUBEN Chair of Southeast Asian Culture and History at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany HABIBUL HAQUE KHONDKER Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ARTEMY MAGUN Professor of Political Theory at the European University of St. Petersburg and at St. Petersburg State University, Russia SAMUEL N-A MENSAH Subject Head for Economics, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa CLAUDIA MORA Faculty Member of the Department of Sociology at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ALEJANDRO PELFINI Professor of Sociology at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile, and Global Studies Programme Director at FLACSO-Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina NICOLA PIPER Senior Research Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Socio-Cultural Research at Freiburg University, Germany STEFAN ROTHER Research Fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute for Socio-cultural Research and Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany RAQUEL SOSA ELIZAGA Professor of the Center for Latin American Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico JESSÉ SOUZA Professor of Sociology at the Federal University Juiz de Fora and Director of the Center for Inequality Research (CEPEDES), Brazil LOIC WACQUANT Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley, USA ANJA WEIß Professor for Macro-Sociology and Transnational Processes at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

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