This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.EPUBIntroduction; B.Rehbein PART I: REGIONAL INEQUALITIES The Persistence of Socio-Cultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia; V.Houben? & B.Rehbein Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia;? H.Khondker Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America: The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism;? R.El?zaga PART II:?NATIONAL INEQUALITIES For a Critical Theory of Modernization: Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal?; J.Souza The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis;? L.Wacquant? Global Expansion of Capitalism, Inequality and Social Movements: The Iranian Case; S.Fadaee? Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares: Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria; O.Adesina ?Higher Education in Russia: Is There a Way out of a Neoliberal Impasse?; A.Magun PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INEQUALITIES Emerging Powers Development, Global Economic Crisis and Value Chains Restructuring;? G.Antonelli Global and National Elites in South America: Limited Transnationalization Processes and the Persistence of Inequality; A.Pelfini Access of Highly Skilled Migrants to Transnational Labour Markets: Is Class Formation Transcending National Divides?; A.Wei?? & S.Mensah Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia;? N.Piper? & S.Rother Global Inequalities Local Hierarchies: Peruvian Migrants' Labour Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile;? C.Mora Conclusion; J.PieterseOLUTAYO CHARLES ADESINA Professor in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, NigeriaGILBERTO ANTONELLI Professor of Economics at the School of Development Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, ItalySIMIN FADAEE Assistant Professor for the Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt UnivlÓ#