Edited by an international group of leading scholars in oral history, and featuring contributions from the world's preeminent oral historians, the International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories aims to increase our understanding of the recent past and the changing present through autobiographical testimony, in the form of written biography, oral history, and life story interviews. Each volume focuses on a single theme: Volume III, Migration and Identity, concerns the shaping of identity, and reveals how migration acts as a crucible for individual social development and wider social...

Discusses cultural citizenship as a theory, and examines Latino communities in Los Angeles, San Antonio, New York, San Jose, and Watsonville, California.

The theme of Migration and Identity is of special concern at a time both of massive worldwide migration and of apparently intensifying national, ethnic, and racial confliicts. Problems of migration and the resulting reconfigurations of social identity are fundamental issues for the twenty-first century. This volume spans the whole complex global web of migratory patterns with contributions linking Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, without losing the particularities of local and personal experience.