Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit - Brossura

Rogaly, Ben

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1526131730 ISBN 13: 9781526131737

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2020

Riassunto

This book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity. Drawing on over one hundred stories and eight years of research in a provincial English city, Rogaly asks what that city (and indeed England as a whole) stands for in the Brexit era. Stories from the city’s homes and streets, and from its warehouse and food factory workplaces, challenge middle-class condescension towards working-class cultures. They also reveal a non-elite cosmopolitanism, which contrasts with the more familiar association of cosmopolitanism with elites. The book combines critique with resources for hope. It is aimed at general readers as well as students and lecturers in geography, sociology, migration studies and oral history.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ben Rogaly teaches in the Department of Geography at the University of Sussex

Dalla quarta di copertina

Nationalists and nativists often blame the figure of the immigrant ‘other’ for society’s ills, contrasting this with the ‘local’ or ‘native’ whose livelihood and way of life are seen as under threat from immigration. Being at ease with difference is seen as the worldview of a cosmopolitan elite.

Stories from a migrant city argues for an urgent transformation of how such terms are understood and deployed. Drawing on eight years of research in an English provincial city and a biographical approach to oral history, this book challenges the ways in which people have come to be seen as ‘migrants’ or ‘locals’ and understood to have opposing interests. Non-elite cosmopolitanism is shown to be alive and well, in spite of racism, the legacies of empire and the devastating effects of four decades of neoliberalism.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

Nationalists and nativists often blame the figure of the immigrant other for society s ills, contrasting this with the local or native whose livelihood and way of life are seen as under threat from immigration. Being at ease with difference is seen as the worldview of a cosmopolitan elite. Stories from a migrant city argues for an urgent transformation of how such terms are understood and deployed. Drawing on eight years of research in an English provincial city and a biographical approach to oral history, this book challenges the ways in which people have come to be seen as migrants or locals and understood to have opposing interests. Non-elite cosmopolitanism is shown to be alive and well, in spite of racism, the legacies of empire and the devastating effects of four decades of neoliberalism.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1526131730
• ISBN 13: 9781526131737
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 233
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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