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The Cultures of Economic Migration : International Perspectives.

Av: Medverkande: Materialtyp: TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2007Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2007Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (227 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317036548
Ämnen: Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 304.8
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Innehåll:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Socio-Cultural Attitudes to Migration and the Academic Disposition of Migration Studies -- PART I: EUROPE -- 2 Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls -- 3 Economic Migrant or Hyphenated British? Writing About Difference in London's East End -- 4 Outsourcing and Migrational Anxieties in Discourse Perspectives -- 5 Economic Satisfaction and Nostalgic Laments: The Language of Bulgarian Economic Migrants After 1989 in Websites and Electronic Fora -- 6 The Immigrating Russian: The Bulgarian Case -- PART II: AFRICA -- 7 The Transformative Effect of Transfer Originating from Migration on Local Moroccan Socio-Economic Dynamics -- 8 'Economic Martyrs': Two Perspectives on 'Lahrig' -- 9 The Cultural Consequence of Economic Migration from Nigeria to the West -- 10 From Homeland to Hopeland? Economic Globalization and Ogoni Migration in the 1990s -- 11 Migrancy and Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance -- PART III: ASIA -- 12 Emigration and Sociocultural Change in Iran -- 13 Imaginary Migrations in Contemporary Chinese Public Culture -- 14 Media Representations in India of the Indian Diaspora in UK and US -- 15 Globalizing Hinduism, Hinduizing India: The Paradoxical Purposes of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad -- 16 Negotiating the Shifting Boundaries of Nativeness and Modernity in Immigrant South Asian Women's Clothes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.
Sammanfattning: This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. The contributors reflect critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Socio-Cultural Attitudes to Migration and the Academic Disposition of Migration Studies -- PART I: EUROPE -- 2 Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls -- 3 Economic Migrant or Hyphenated British? Writing About Difference in London's East End -- 4 Outsourcing and Migrational Anxieties in Discourse Perspectives -- 5 Economic Satisfaction and Nostalgic Laments: The Language of Bulgarian Economic Migrants After 1989 in Websites and Electronic Fora -- 6 The Immigrating Russian: The Bulgarian Case -- PART II: AFRICA -- 7 The Transformative Effect of Transfer Originating from Migration on Local Moroccan Socio-Economic Dynamics -- 8 'Economic Martyrs': Two Perspectives on 'Lahrig' -- 9 The Cultural Consequence of Economic Migration from Nigeria to the West -- 10 From Homeland to Hopeland? Economic Globalization and Ogoni Migration in the 1990s -- 11 Migrancy and Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance -- PART III: ASIA -- 12 Emigration and Sociocultural Change in Iran -- 13 Imaginary Migrations in Contemporary Chinese Public Culture -- 14 Media Representations in India of the Indian Diaspora in UK and US -- 15 Globalizing Hinduism, Hinduizing India: The Paradoxical Purposes of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad -- 16 Negotiating the Shifting Boundaries of Nativeness and Modernity in Immigrant South Asian Women's Clothes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.

This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. The contributors reflect critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it.

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