Local lives: migration and the politics of place
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate Pub. 2010
Series:Studies in migration and diaspora
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 203 p.)
ISBN:9780754699989
0754699986
9781409401032
1409401030

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