British Migration: Privilege, Diversity and Vulnerability

ISBN-13: 9781138690332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 202 str.

Katie Walsh; Pauline Leonard

Opis

For a long time British emigration has suffered from a seeming invisibility in academia, public perception and policy making. 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. By drawing together a range of research conducted with migrants from different backgrounds to different national contexts, this book reveals that the operation of social structural factors in Britain, such as class, race and ethnicity, gender and age often continue in new migratory contexts, albeit combined with new meanings and performances. In turn, these aspects of identity may mediate attitudes to, and experiences of, return to Britain. This book will provide an important contribution to the expanding and highly topical field analysing migration as an aspect of globalisation, transnational identities and multiculturalism.

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