Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

1. Introduction
Boike Rehbein

Part I. Regional Inequalities

2. The Persistence of Sociocultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Vincent Houben, Boike Rehbein

3. Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia
Habibul Haque Khondker

4. Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America: The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism
Raquel Sosa Elízaga

Part II. National Inequalities

5. Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal? Towards a Critical Theory of Modernization
Jessé Souza

6. The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis
Loïc Wacquant

7. Global Expansion of Capitalism, Inequality and Social Movements: The Iranian Case
Simin Fadaee

8. Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares: Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria
Olutayo Charles Adesina

9. Higher Education in Russia: Is There a Way out of a Neoliberal Impasse?
Artemy Magun

Part III. Transnational Inequalities

10. Emerging Powers Development, Global Economic Crisis and Value Chains Restructuring
Gilberto Antonelli

11. Global and National Political Elites in South America: Limited Transnationalization Processes and the Persistence of Inequality
Alejandro Pelfini

12. Access of Highly-Skilled Migrants to Transnational Labor Markets: Is Class Formation Transcending National Divides?
Anja Weiß, Samuel N.-A. Mensah

13. Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia
Nicola Piper, Stefan Rother

14. Global Inequalities — Local Hierarchies, Peruvian Migrants’ Labor Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile
Claudia Mora

15. Conclusion: Globalization and Inequality
Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Globalization, Development Studies, Sociology, general, Development Policy, Political Sociology, Political Economy