Voyages
Subtitle: from Tongan villages to American suburbs
By: Cathy A. Small
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cornell University Press; Cornell Univ Pr
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780801450693; 9780801477393
Subjects: Social conditions; Emigration and immigration; Tongans; Acculturation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Portrait of a migrating village; title: Why migrate?; title: Coming to America; title: One family's story; title: Palu, the one who left; title: An anthropologist over time; title: Going home : Tongan village life in the 1990s; title: Distant family; title: Finau, the one who stayed; title: Tradition; title: The meanings of Tongan migration; title: Anthropology in a transnational world; title: California dreams; title: Back to the islands; title: Reflections on and of globalization; title: Appendix : Tongan population and migration estimates.