Local Lives
Migration and the Politics of Place
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2010
Book
Hardback
218 pages
978-1-4094-0103-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 symbolically lay claim to owning and belonging to place, it refocuses our attention on the micro-politics and everyday rituals of place-making, that are central to the construction of migrant identities. Exploring immigrants' interactions with house spaces, property rights, environmental conservation, landscape, historical knowledge of place, ideas of 'local community' and place-specific 'traditions', this volume shows how, in a fluid world of movement, locality remains a deeply contested and symbolically rich place to situate identity and to constitute the self. Thematically organised and presenting a diverse range of empirical studies dealing with migrant communities in Hawaii, Britain, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic and Albania, Local Lives reorients research in migration and transnational studies around locality. As such, it will appeal to social scientists working on questions relating to landscape, identity and belonging; race and ethnicity; and migration and transnationalism.
Reviews / Votes
'This timely volume presents a set of compelling ethnographic accounts that refocus our attention on processes of place-making in studies of movement. Tracing the means by which people make the places where they have settled matter to them, Local Lives underlines the importance of fully recognizing a fundamental dimension of migration that is too often elided in contemporary transnational studies.' Vered Amit, Concordia University, USA 'Opening up new perspectives on the topic of migration, one of today's most challenging social issues, what is particularly important is the comparative view this book contains through concrete studies of a wide variety of migrant experiences. Dealing with attachment to place, but reflecting on what it means to break up and move, it is a book that has important interdisciplinary implications.' Helge RA?nning, University of Oslo, Norway 'This edited volume [...] constitutes a timely and precious contribution to the emerging field of mobility studies.' Anthropological ForumMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4094-0103-2 (9781409401032)
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Persons
Brigitte BA?nisch-Brednich is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Catherine Trundle is Lecturer of Anthropology in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Content
Contents: Introduction: local migrants and the politics of being in place, Brigitte BA?nisch-Brednich and Catherine Trundle; Part I Migrants and the Politics of Land Ownership: Migrant routes and local roots: negotiating property in DhA<<rmi/Drimades in Southern Albania, NataA!a Gregorie Bon; Against the gated community: contesting the 'ugly American dream' through rural New Zealand dreams, Catherine Trundle; Past imperfect: displacing Hawaiians as hosts in a 'drop out' community in Hawai'i, Lucy Pickering. Part II Landscapes of Belonging: 'We are not expats; we are not migrants; we are Sauliacoise': laying claim to belonging in rural France, Michaela Benson; Ambiguous foreigners: neighbours share more than geographical space, Jacqueline Waldren. Part III Houses and Homes: Intimate Migrant Place: A reluctant locality: the politics of place and progress in Santo Domingo, Erin B. Taylor; Little Anglo-India: making Australia 'local' at St Joseph's hostel, Robyn Andrews. Part IV Contesting Urban Place: Invoking a community of engagement; mobility and place in a small English town, Karen O'Reilly; Negotiating religious expression and citizenry belonging: Bosnian experiences in suburban Melbourne, Lejler Voloder; Migrants on campus: becoming a local foreign academic, Brigitte BA?nisch-Brednich; Epilogue: the cosmopolitan justice of a direction home, Nigel Rapport; Index.