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Title Local lives : migration and the politics of place / edited by Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich and Catherine Trundle.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in migration and diaspora
Studies in migration and diaspora.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation.
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Space perception -- Social aspects.
Space perception -- Social aspects.
Space perception.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte.
Trundle, Catherine.
Other Form: Print version: Local lives. Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2010 9781409401032 (DLC) 2010028777 (OCoLC)646716318
ISBN 9780754699989 (electronic book)
0754699986 (electronic book)
9781409401032
1409401030
0754699986
Standard No. 9786612880568