Deborah Reed-Danahay

Sideways Migration

Being French in London

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it charts a set of middle-class aspirations that lead people to move to a nearby nation that is similar in wealth and social indicators - a type of horizontal relocation that it terms "sideways migration."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032732831
• ISBN-10: 1032732830
• Artikelnr.: 71264113

Autorenporträt

Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo. Her recent books include Bourdieu and Social Space: Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements (2020) and the edited volume Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing (w/H. Wulff, 2024). She co-edits the book series Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology and is a former president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. She holds the title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, conferred by the French government.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1: London as a Space of Possibilities
3. Chapter 2: Emplacements and Dislocations
4. Chapter 3: Fieldwork in "Brexit Times"
5. Chapter 4: The French Emigration Apparatus
6. Chapter 5: French Imaginaries of London Life
7. Conclusion