[PDF] Global Migrants Local Lives eBook

Author : Katy Gardner
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 1995-02-23
Category :
ISBN : 0191590835

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Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Immigrant communities are usually studied in the context of the country people have migrated to; Katy Gardner, however, looks at the neglected `sending' side of the equation. In the sending communities, out-migration has become a central economic and social resource - the route to social, as well as physical, mobility, transforming those who gain access to it. Dr Gardner examines the cultural context and effects of the long-term migration from Bangladesh to Britain and the Middle East, drawing on her fieldwork in the Sylhet district,an area of exceptional migration. Major aspects of Bangledeshi life such as land, family structure, marriage and religion - all of which have been affected by the heavy out-migration - are covered in detail, and the transformation of the social structure is mapped. In focusing on local ideology, this book shows how local cultural meanings are constantly negotiated and contested by different groups in the context of rapid economic change. At the heart of this important contribution to the anthropology of migration is a presentation of the dynamic nature of migration and the concomitant possibility of self-transformation it holds for migrant cultures.

Author : Laura Tabili
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 023030771X

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Employing the first analysis of the entire population of any British town, this book examines how overseas migrants affected society and culture in South Shields near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Resituating Britain within global processes of migration and cultural change, it recasts British society pre-1940 as culturally and racially dynamic and diverse.

Author : Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351921614

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Local Lives contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced belonging and the anxieties of being uprooted. By addressing the question of how migrants legally and symbolically lay claim to owning and belonging to place, it refocuses our attention on the micro-politics and everyday rituals of place-making, that are central to the construction of migrant identities. Exploring immigrants' interactions with house spaces, property rights, environmental conservation, landscape, historical knowledge of place, ideas of 'local community' and place-specific 'traditions', this volume shows how, in a fluid world of movement, locality remains a deeply contested and symbolically rich place to situate identity and to constitute the self. Thematically organised and presenting a diverse range of empirical studies dealing with migrant communities in Hawaii, Britain, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic and Albania, Local Lives reorients research in migration and transnational studies around locality. As such, it will appeal to social scientists working on questions relating to landscape, identity and belonging; race and ethnicity; and migration and transnationalism.

Author : Rosie Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811331642

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This book explores the complex category of the ‘skilled migrant,’ drawing on multi-sited narrative interviews with migrants who have all lived in Australia at some point in their lives (as an origin and/or destination). Developing the more nuanced concept of the ‘mobile settler’, it shows how becoming a skilled migrant is not just a political and economic determination of knowledge and human capital but a complex negotiation of contexts – immigration contexts, social locations, qualifications and skills, as well as personal ties. Belying the simple binaries of official visa categories, these diverse contexts of migrant experience are central to the ways migrants construct their personal histories and negotiate their shifting attachments to home and belonging over time and space. By highlighting how migrants imagine their own complex social, cultural, national, professional and linguistic identities and pathways, this book extends the agent-centred approaches to global mobility and transnationalism that have emerged in cultural studies and social and cultural geography in recent years, according greater recognition to the individualised, local and lived experiences of global migration and thus engaging more deeply with global concerns about increased mobility and the challenges it represents.

Author : Angelika Groterath
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9781536154009

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Global migration possesses a very diverse and dynamic nature. To gain a critical understanding of global migration, scholarly research and ideas need to revolve around sub-regional and interdisciplinary approaches. This book combines the editing skills and insights of three accomplished researchers, authors, and practitioners in the field. The collection of chapters weave together the themes detailed below while providing a diverse yet coherent point of reference for the readers. Book themes: The Nexus between Migration and Mobility; Push and Pull: Refugee's Life Choices; Refugee Journey and Trauma; The Geopolitical Analysis of Migration; Integration, Inclusion, or Assimilation: Policy Dilemma; Prospects of Refugees within the Socio-Economic Landscape of Host Communities; Women and Migration; Racism as a Challenge for Integration.

Author : Ton van Naerssen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2008-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135896305

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This volume addresses the question: to what extent and under what conditions does international migration contribute to local and national development?

Author : Aristide R. Zolberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781571811691

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Includes statistics.

Author : Angelika Groterath
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781536154016

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"Global migration possesses a very diverse and dynamic nature. To gain a critical understanding of global migration, scholarly research and ideas need to revolve around sub-regional and interdisciplinary approaches. This book, Migration & Refugees: Global Patterns and Local Contexts, combines the editing skills and insights of three accomplished researchers, authors, and practitioners in the field. The collection of chapters weave together the themes detailed below while providing a diverse yet coherent point of reference for the readers. Book themes: - The Nexus between Migration and Mobility; - Push and Pull: Refugee's Life Choices; - Refugee Journey and Trauma; - The Geopolitical Analysis of Migration; - Integration, Inclusion, or Assimilation: Policy Dilemma; - Prospects of Refugees within the Socio-Economic Landscape of Host Communities; - Women and Migration; - Racism as a Challenge for Integration"--

Author : Katy Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2002-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describes how many of these elders face the processes of ageing, sickness and finally death, in a country where they did not expect to stay and where they do not necessarily feel they belong. The ways in which they talk about and deal with this, and in particular, their ambivalence towards Britain and Bangladesh lies at the heart of the book. Centrally, the book is based around the men and womens life stories. In her analysis of these, Gardner shows how narratives play an important role in the formation of both collective and individual identity and are key domains for the articulation of gender and age. Underlying the stories that people tell, and sometimes hidden within their gaps and silences, are often other issues and concerns. Using particular idioms and narrative devices, the elders talk about the contradictions and disjunctions of transmigration, their relationship with and sometimes resistance to, the British State, and what they often present as the breakdown of traditional ways. In addition to this, the book shows that histories, stories and identity are not just narrated through words, but also through the body - an area rarely theorized in studies of migration.