LANGUAGE, LABOUR AND MIGRATION
First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Language, labour and migration. - (Studies in migration)
1. Migrant labour - Social aspects - Congresses 2. Immigrants
- Language - Congresses 3. Immigrants - Employment -
Congresses 4. Language and culture - Congresses
I. Kershen, Anne J., 1942
306.4'4'089
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-132604
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-1171-4 (hbk)
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Preface
Anne J. Kershen
Anne J. Kershen
Tony Kushner
Bronwen Walter
Veronica L.C. White
Wayne Parsons
Ian Duffield
Shompa Lahiri
Paul Bailey
Alice Bloch
Mahmood Messkoub
Paul Bailey is Reader in East Asian History at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include China in the Twentieth Century (1988), Reform The People (1990) and Postwar Japan (1996). He is currently writing a book- length manuscript on Chinese workers in France during the First World War.
Alice Bloch is Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her recent publications include an edited collection, with Carl Levy, Refugees, Social Policy and Citizenship in Europe, Macmillan, 1999.
Ian Duffield teaches in the Department of History, University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on convict transportation and on African Diaspora History. Among his 1990s publications are: Jagdish S. Gundara and Ian Duffield (eds), Essays on the History of Blacks in Britain, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1992; Ian Duffield and James Bradley (eds), Representing Convicts, London, Leicester University Press, 1997 and 2000. He is also founder and principal researcher of the International Centre for Convict Studies, University of Tasmania (Hobart). A former president (1994-97) of the British Australian Studies Association, he is one of the three current editors of its refereed journal, Australian Studies.
Anne J. Kershen is Barnett Shine Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She has published widely and is the author of Uniting the Tailors (1995); co-author of Tradition and Change: A History of Reform Judaism in Britain 1840-1995 (1995) and editor of and contributor to, London the Promised Land? The Migrant Experience in a Capital City (1997) and A Question of Identity (1998). She is currently working on a study of the way in which politics impact upon the lives of the poor and the way in which the poor affect the course of politics.
Tony Kushner is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton. He is the author and editor of 10 books, the latest co-authored with Katherine Knox, Refugees in an Age of Genocide: Global, National and Local Perspectives During the Twentieth Century (1999).
Shompa Lahiri is Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Migration, at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and has published articles on South Asians in Britain and British policy towards Indian Princes. She is the author of Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race and Identity (1999) and is currently working on a study of ethnic minorities in the criminal justice system.
Mahmood Messkoub lectures in economics at Leeds University Business School. He has also taught and researched at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and the Institute of Social Studies at the Hague. His current research interests are in the interface between population studies and economics, particularly in the areas of migration and population ageing.
Wayne Parsons is Professor of Public Policy at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and a graduate of the University of Wales. He was bom in Cardiff and is the product of a diverse Celtic background. Amongst his publications are Keynes and the QuestforaMoral Science (1997), Public Policy (1995), The Power of the Financial Press (1989) and The Political Economy of British Regional Policy (1988).
Bronwen Walter is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. She has a long-standing research interest in Irish migration to Britain, particularly in the experiences of Irish women in the diaspora. She is co-author of the 1997 report for the Commission for Racial Equality, Discrimination and the Irish Community in Britain.
Veronica L.C. White is Specialist Registrar in Respiratory Medicine and TB Research Fellow at the Barts and London NHS Trust. She is currently researching an MD on Barriers to the Effective Management of Tuberculosis in the Bangladeshi Community of East London and is a contributor to the Royal College of Physicians Medical Masterclass.
The Centre for the Study of Migration was established in the autumn of 1994 at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, in order to provide a focal point in London for those concerned with the study of the movements of people locally, nationally and internationally. One of the major attributes of the Centre is its multi-disciplinary nature and its intention to promote the interaction of all those engaged in the study of migration. One way of achieving this aim has been through the mounting of conferences which explore specific themes through a variety of lenses. To date three conferences have been held each of which has been followed by the publication of a selection of essays, some of which were given as papers at the conference, others specially commissioned. The first two conferences spawned London the Promised Land? The Migrant Experience in a Capital City, published in March 1997, and A Question of Identity, published in November 1998 - each edited by myself.
The third conference, held in November 1998, was on the theme of Language and Labour and this volume is the outcome, once again a collection of conference papers with some additional, specially commissioned chapters which expand on the theme. As befits the Centres
