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Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London : Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces / Cangbai Wang, Terry Lamb.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Encounters ; 24Publisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781788927765
  • 9781788927772
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Cities and Language: An Interdisciplinary Perspective -- Part 1 ‘Metrolingual Space’: Cultural Translation, Language Ideologies and Diasporic Identities in a Global City -- 2 Negotiating New Migratory Identities through Multilingual Practices: The Case of Post-Crisis Italian Migrants in London -- 3 ‘Sorry, I’m French’: Frenchness as Uneasy Resource in the Construction of Home, Identity and Belonging among French Students in London -- 4 Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of a New Ethno-Religious Identity -- Part 2 ‘Performative Space’: Visualising, Sounding and Acting Identities in a Transnational Field -- 5 Performing Black Beauty: The Congolese Community in London -- 6 Articulating the Subjectivities of British Chinese Women through Art and Material Objects -- 7 Negotiating Diasporic Identities in Glocal Heritage Discourses: The Case of the Chinese New Year Celebration in London -- 8 Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its Congregation -- Part 3 ‘Heritagisation Space’: Collecting, Remembering and Transmitting the Past for a Shared Future -- 9 Spaces of Heritagisation: The UK Indian Communities and Memorials of War -- 10 Tracing the Graphic Heritage of Hackney’s Migrant Communities through Food -- 11 Contesting Everyday (Food) Heritage in London’s Chinatown -- 12 A Museum for Me: Place and Memory Making with Mujer Diáspora -- Index
Summary: This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing together case studies of diverse migrant communities.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Cities and Language: An Interdisciplinary Perspective -- Part 1 ‘Metrolingual Space’: Cultural Translation, Language Ideologies and Diasporic Identities in a Global City -- 2 Negotiating New Migratory Identities through Multilingual Practices: The Case of Post-Crisis Italian Migrants in London -- 3 ‘Sorry, I’m French’: Frenchness as Uneasy Resource in the Construction of Home, Identity and Belonging among French Students in London -- 4 Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of a New Ethno-Religious Identity -- Part 2 ‘Performative Space’: Visualising, Sounding and Acting Identities in a Transnational Field -- 5 Performing Black Beauty: The Congolese Community in London -- 6 Articulating the Subjectivities of British Chinese Women through Art and Material Objects -- 7 Negotiating Diasporic Identities in Glocal Heritage Discourses: The Case of the Chinese New Year Celebration in London -- 8 Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its Congregation -- Part 3 ‘Heritagisation Space’: Collecting, Remembering and Transmitting the Past for a Shared Future -- 9 Spaces of Heritagisation: The UK Indian Communities and Memorials of War -- 10 Tracing the Graphic Heritage of Hackney’s Migrant Communities through Food -- 11 Contesting Everyday (Food) Heritage in London’s Chinatown -- 12 A Museum for Me: Place and Memory Making with Mujer Diáspora -- Index

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This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing together case studies of diverse migrant communities.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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