Cultures of Economic Migration

Cultures of Economic Migration

International Perspectives

Kershen, Dr. Anne J.; Gupta, Suman; Omoniyi, Tope

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2007

232

Dura

Inglês

9780754670704

15 a 20 dias

Explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Presenting economic migration and the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, this book addresses whether enquiries into modernity bring a comprehension of the nature of dislocation and movement.
Contents: Preface; Introduction: socio-cultural attitudes to migration and the academic disposition of migration studies, Suman Gupta. Part I Europe: Open borders: the case against immigration controls, Teresa Hayter; Economic migrant or hyphenated British? Writing about difference in London's East End, John Eade; Outsourcing and migrational anxieties in discourse perspectives, Tope OmonA-yi; Economic satisfaction and nostalgic laments: the language of Bulgarian economic migrants after 1989 in websites and electronic fora, Zhivko Ivanov; The immigrating Russian: the Bulgarian case, Irina Chongarova. Part II Africa: The transformative effect of transfer originating from migration on local Moroccan socio-economic dynamics, Taoufik Agoumy; 'Economic martyrs': 2 perspectives on 'lahrig', Taieb Belghazi; The cultural consequence of economic migration from Nigeria to the West, Efurosibina Adegbija; From homeland to hopeland? Economic globalization and Ogoni migration in the 1990s, Cyril I. Obi; Migrancy and Thabo Mbeki's African renaissance, David Johnson. Part III Asia: Emigration and sociocultural change in Iran, Taghi Azadarmaki and Mehri Bahar; Imaginary migrations in contemporary Chinese public culture, Yue Daiyun; Media representations in India of the Indian diaspora in UK and US, Subarno Chattarji; Globalizing Hunduism, Hinduizing India: the paradoxical purposes of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Tapan Basu; Negotiating the shifting boundaries of nativeness and modernity in immigrant South Asian women's clothes, Vinay Bahl; Index.
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