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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 symbol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte, Trundle, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2010.
Colección:Studies in migration and diaspora.
Temas:
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Space perception > Social aspects.
Immigrants > Intégration.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Perception spatiale > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Migratie (demografie)
Assimilatie (sociologie)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Local Migrants and the Politics of Being in Place
  • Part I: Migrants And The Politics Of Land Ownership
  • 1 Migrant Routes and Local Roots: Negotiating Property in Dhërmi/Drimades of Southern Albania
  • 2 Against the Gated Community: Contesting the 'Ugly American Dream' Through Rural New Zealand Dreams
  • 3 Past Imperfect: Displacing Hawaiians As Hosts in a 'Drop Out' Community in Hawai'I
  • Part II: Landscapes Of Belonging
  • 4 'We Are Not Expats; We Are Not Migrants;We Are Sauliacoise': Laying Claim to Belonging in Rural France
  • 5 Ambiguous Foreigners: Neighbours Share More Than Geographical Space
  • Part III: Houses And Homes
  • 6 A Reluctant Locality: The Politics of Place and Progress in Santo Domingo
  • 7 Little Anglo-India: Making Australia 'Local' At St Joseph's Hostel
  • Part IV: Contesting Urban Place
  • 8 Invoking a Community of Engagement: Mobility and Place in a Small English Town
  • 9 Negotiating Religious Expression and Citizenry Belonging: Bosnian Experiences in Suburban Melbourne
  • 10 Migrants on Campus: Becoming a Local Foreign Academic
  • Epilogue: The Cosmopolitan Justice of a Direction Home
  • Index.

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