No Family Is an Island

by Ilana Gershon

Book Overview

Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, Ilana Gershon investigates how and when the categories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478057
• ISBN13: 9780801478055
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher