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Author:   Nitya Rao
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780415693516

ISBN 10:   0415693519
Pages:   135
Publication Date:   16 January 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Introduction: Migration, education and socio-economic mobility Nitya Rao 2. Aspirations and self-hood: exploring the meaning of higher secondary education for girl college students in rural Bangladesh Nicoletta Del Franco 3. Aspiring for distinction: gendered educational choices in an Indian village Nitya Rao 4. ‘It is hard to stay in England’: itineraries, routes, and dead ends: an (im)mobility study of nurses who became carers Sondra Cuban 5. To fairly tell: social mobility, life histories, and the anthropologist Véronique Benei 6. Marginal returns: re-thinking mobility and educational benefit in contexts of chronic poverty Bryan Maddox 7. Standardized individuality: cosmopolitanism and educational decision-making in an Atlantic Canadian rural community Michael J. Corbett 8. Whose education? The inclusion of Gypsy/Travellers: continuing culture and tradition through the right to choose educational opportunities to support their social and economic mobility Christine O’Hanlon

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Nitya Rao is Senior Lecturer at the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK. She has over 25 years experience as a field-level practitioner, trainer, researcher and teacher. She has worked extensively in the field of gendered land relations, and her book Good Women do not Inherit Land: Politics of Land and Gender in India was published in 2008. She has also been involved in researching, from a gender perspective, issues of livelihoods and economic growth, with a focus on migration, education, resource access and social identity, with a particular focus on South Asia.

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