The long held idea of the city as theater of social life is being replaced by a historically new paradigm of the city as an “urban sector” posed as an “engine of growth” with government in service of a globalizing corporate economy. In Asia support for this new paradigm is coming from...

This paper seeks to locate the household in research on global migration and transborder social and economic integration. The focus is on the household as a basic institution in social reproduction. The discussion begins by comparing concepts of the household in society, starting with peasant...