LOCAL LIVES
Studies in Migration and Diaspora
Series Editor:
Anne J. Kershen, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Studies in Migration and Diaspora is a series designed to showcase the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of research in this important field. Volumes in the series cover local, national and global issues and engage with both historical and contemporary events. The books will appeal to scholars, students and all those engaged in the study of migration and diaspora. Amongst the topics covered are minority ethnic relations, transnational movements and the cultural, social and political implications of moving from over there, to over here.
Also in the series:
Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations
Working Whiteness
Pauline Leonard
ISBN 978-0-7546-7365-1
Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People
Chameleon Identities
Sultana Choudhry
ISBN 978-0-7546-7860-1
The Invisible Empire
White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging
Georgie Wemyss
ISBN 978-0-7546-7347-7
Lifestyle Migration
Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences
Edited by Michaela Benson and Karen OReilly
ISBN 978-0-7546-7567-9
International Migration and Rural Areas
Cross-National Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Birgit Jentsch and Myriam Simard
ISBN 978-0-7546-7484-9
Local Lives
Migration and the Politics of Place
Edited by
BRIGITTE BNISCH-BREDNICH and CATHERINE TRUNDLE
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Local lives : migration and the politics of place. --
(Studies in migration and diaspora)
1. Immigrants--Cultural assimilation. 2. Human territoriality. 3. Ethnicity.
I. Series II. Bnisch-Brednich, Brigitte. III. Trundle, Catherine.
304.2'3'089-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Local lives : migration and the politics of place / [edited] by Brigitte Bnisch-Brednich and Catherine Trundle.
p. cm. -- (Studies in migration and diaspora)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0103-2 (hardback) 1. Immigrants--Cultural assimilation. 2. Emigration and immigration--Social aspects. 3. Space perception--Social aspects. I. Bnisch-Brednich, Brigitte. II. Trundle, Catherine. III. Title. IV. Series.
JV6225.L63 2010
304.8--dc22
2010028777
ISBN 9781409401032 (hbk)
Contents
Brigitte Bnisch-Brednich and Catherine Trundle
Nataa Gregori Bon
Catherine Trundle
Lucy Pickering
Michaela Benson
Jacqueline Waldren
Erin B. Taylor
Robyn Andrews
Karen OReilly
Lejla Voloder
Brigitte Bnisch-Brednich
Nigel Rapport
Robyn Andrews is lecturer in the Social Anthropology Programme at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research on Anglo-Indians began with her PhD (an ethnography of Calcuttas Anglo-Indians), and she has expanded her focus to include the Anglo-Indian diaspora, and Anglo-Indian ageing. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, including, Living and Working in Calcutta: Janes Story in Working Women: Stories of Strife, Struggles and Survival (Sage), and Christianity as an Indian Religion: The Anglo-Indian Experience in the Journal of Contemporary Religion.
Michaela Benson has a background in sociology and social anthropology. She has previously co-edited a volume for the Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (CSAP), entitled Engagements with Teaching and Learning: A View from Anthropology. She has also co-edited a special issue on gift exchange for Anthropology in Action (2008) and a volume entitled, Lifestyle Migration: Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences (2009 Ashgate). She conducted 12 months of ethnographic research among British migrants in southwest France (the first ethnography on this topic), on which she based her PhD thesis and a forthcoming monograph entitled, The British in Rural France: Lifestyle Choice, Migration, and the Quest for a Better Way of Life (Manchester University Press). In 20082009 she was the Sociological Review Fellow.
Brigitte Bnisch-Brednich (editor) is professor of Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has published widely on issues around affluent migration, oral history, bi-culturalism and popular culture. Her ethnography of German migration to New Zealand Keeping a Low Profile: An Oral History of German Immigration to New Zealand has become a core text in a number of undergraduate and graduate programmes on migration in Europe. She is currently writing a book on academic migrants in the global tertiary education sector.
Nataa Gregori Bon received her PhD in social anthropology from the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Currently she is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Her research interests focus on the notions of space and place, borders and boundaries, new regionalisms and Europeanisation. Her regional specialisation is in southern Albania where she has so far conducted 14 months of fieldwork. She has several articles in Slovenian and English on such topics as space, pilgrimage and storytelling in southern Albania, including an article in Tourism, Culture & Communication on post-communism, locality and belonging.
Karen OReilly, Reader in Sociology, Loughborough University, UK, has a background in sociology and social anthropology and a keen interest in ethnographic methods. She is author of The British on the Costa del Sol and Ethnographic Methods (both with Routledge), Key Concepts in Ethnography (Sage), and numerous journal articles in the fields of tourism and migration. Her research in Spain has spanned nearly 15 years and included long-term ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews with groups and individuals, as well as survey methods. Her research interests are in contemporary migrations (and mobilities) and their implications for sociological problems of nation, ethnicity, class, gender, age, community, home and belonging.
