Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Persistence of Sociocultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia....Pages 11-30
Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia....Pages 31-49
Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America: The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism....Pages 50-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal? Towards a Critical Theory of Modernization....Pages 71-91
The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis....Pages 92-117
Global Expansion of Capitalism, Inequality and Social Movements: The Iranian Case....Pages 118-135
Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares: Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria....Pages 136-147
Higher Education in Russia: Is There a Way out of a Neoliberal Impasse?....Pages 148-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Emerging Powers Development, Global Economic Crisis and Value Chains Restructuring....Pages 175-193
Global and National Political Elites in South America: Limited Transnationalization Processes and the Persistence of Inequality....Pages 194-210
Access of Highly-Skilled Migrants to Transnational Labor Markets: Is Class Formation Transcending National Divides?....Pages 211-234
Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia....Pages 235-255
Global Inequalities — Local Hierarchies, Peruvian Migrants’ Labor Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile....Pages 256-269
Conclusion: Globalization and Inequality....Pages 270-275
Back Matter....Pages 277-283