ISBN:
9781788927789
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Encounters Series v.24
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Negotiating identities, language and migration in global London
DDC:
306.09421
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
;
London
;
Ethnologie
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Sprachgebrauch
;
Einwanderer
;
Diaspora
;
Globalisierung
Abstract:
This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing together case studies of diverse migrant communities.
Abstract:
Intro -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Cities and Language: An Interdisciplinary Perspective -- Part 1: 'Metrolingual Space': Cultural Translation, Language Ideologies and Diasporic Identities in a Global City -- 2. Negotiating New Migratory Identities through Multilingual Practices: The Case of Post-Crisis Italian Migrants in London -- 3. 'Sorry, I'm French': Frenchness as Uneasy Resource in the Construction of Home, Identity and Belonging among French Students in London -- 4. Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of a New Ethno-Religious Identity -- Part 2: 'Performative Space': Visualising, Sounding and Acting Identities in a Transnational Field -- 5. Performing Black Beauty: The Congolese Community in London -- 6. Articulating the Subjectivities of British Chinese Women through Art and Material Objects -- 7. Negotiating Diasporic Identities in Glocal Heritage Discourses: The Case of the Chinese New Year Celebration in London -- 8. Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its Congregation -- Part 3: 'Heritagisation Space': Collecting, Remembering and Transmitting the Past for a Shared Future -- 9. Spaces of Heritagisation: The UK Indian Communities and Memorials of War -- 10. Tracing the Graphic Heritage of Hackney's Migrant Communities through Food -- 11. Contesting Everyday (Food) Heritage in London's Chinatown -- 12. A Museum for Me: Place and Memory Making with Mujer Diáspora -- Index.
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