British Migration: Privilege, Diversity and Vulnerability

ISBN-13: 9780367582692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

Pauline Leonard; Katie Walsh

Opis

This edited collection brings together leading scholars to explore cutting edge research on British migrants in an international range of settings. This book explores the diversities which exist within and between British migrants, and the importance of spatial context.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: British migration: privilege, diversity and vulnerability 2. Constellations of privilege: the racialised and classed formation of Britons living in rural France 3. Home consumption and belonging among British migrants in Western Australia 4. British migrant orientations in Singapore: negotiating expatriate identities 5. Post-colonial liminality: ‘expatriate’ narratives in the East Africa Women’s League 6. Transgressing transnational normativity? British migration and interracial marriage in South Africa 7. British-born Indian second-generation ‘return’ to India 8. Britishness abroad: national identities for contemporary British migrants living in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand 9. Size matters: British women’s embodied experiences of size in Singapore 10. Resilience and social support among ageing British migrants in Spain 11. Returning at retirement: British migrants coming ‘home’ in later life

O autorze

Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK.

Katie Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.