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Cosmologies of credit : transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China
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ISBN: 9780822348061 0822348063 9780822347927 082234792X Year: 2010 Publisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press,

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Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out from her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel (currently averaging

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