The Jetty Dwellers Of Penang : Incorporation And Marginalisation Of An Urban Clan Community

This study represents an attempt to analyze at the micro-level the process of socio-economic change in an urban poor community within a metropolitan centre in the Third World. The community chosan — the Chew Jetty settlement in Georgetown, Penang Island, Malaysia - is a waterfront settlement created...

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Main Author:	Chan, Lean Heng
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	1980
Subjects:	H1-99 Social sciences (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.usm.my/54561/1/Thesis%20The%20Jetty%20Dwellers%20of%20Penang%20cut.pdf
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spelling	my-usm-ep.545612022-09-09T08:30:37Z The Jetty Dwellers Of Penang : Incorporation And Marginalisation Of An Urban Clan Community 1980-05 Chan, Lean Heng H1-99 Social sciences (General) This study represents an attempt to analyze at the micro-level the process of socio-economic change in an urban poor community within a metropolitan centre in the Third World. The community chosan — the Chew Jetty settlement in Georgetown, Penang Island, Malaysia - is a waterfront settlement created about a century ago by Chinese migrants sharing a common geographical, historical and lineage origin. Using the world-system approach as a theoretical framework and employing a combination of social research techniques, the study seeks to reconstruct the historical transformation of the jetty community's internal socio-economic structure and the dynamics of its adaptive responses to external changes. 1980-05 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/54561/ http://eprints.usm.my/54561/1/Thesis%20The%20Jetty%20Dwellers%20of%20Penang%20cut.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Sains Kemasyarakatan
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description	This study represents an attempt to analyze at the micro-level the process of socio-economic change in an urban poor community within a metropolitan centre in the Third World. The community chosan — the Chew Jetty settlement in Georgetown, Penang Island, Malaysia - is a waterfront settlement created about a century ago by Chinese migrants sharing a common geographical, historical and lineage origin. Using the world-system approach as a theoretical framework and employing a combination of social research techniques, the study seeks to reconstruct the historical transformation of the jetty community's internal socio-economic structure and the dynamics of its adaptive responses to external changes.
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author	Chan, Lean Heng
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title	The Jetty Dwellers Of Penang : Incorporation And Marginalisation Of An Urban Clan Community
title_short	The Jetty Dwellers Of Penang : Incorporation And Marginalisation Of An Urban Clan Community
title_full	The Jetty Dwellers Of Penang : Incorporation And Marginalisation Of An Urban Clan Community
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The Jetty Dwellers Of Penang : Incorporation And Marginalisation Of An Urban Clan Community

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