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| Title: | Going Home to Cry: An Analysis of Labour Migrant Letters |
| Authors: | Mani, A. |
| Issue Date: | 1996 |
| Citation: | Mani, A. (1996). Going Home to Cry: An Analysis of Labour Migrant Letters. Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science 24 (2) : 84-98. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. |
| Abstract: | Examines letters written by 300 Tamil migrant workers in Malaya & Singapore in 1962 to explore their social disorganization in homeland India & social reorganization in Malaya, focusing on the social disorganization theory proposed by W. Thomas & Florian Znaniecki (1984). The letters also provide information on living conditions aboard the ships, preparation for travel, & life in India, including the treatment by Indian customs officials. The importance of the village migrant workers' ethnic identity in multiracial Malaya is also discussed. C. Haywood. |
| Source Title: | Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science |
| URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/132431 |
| ISSN: | 03038246 |
| Appears in Collections: | Staff Publications |
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