A. James Hammerton

Migrants of the British diaspora since the 1960s (eBook, ePUB)

Stories from modern nomads

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first social history to explore experiences of British emigrants from the peak years of the 1960s to the emigration resurgence of the turn of the twentieth century. It explores migrant experiences in Australia, Canada and New Zealand alongside other countries. The book charts the gradual reinvention of the 'British diaspora' from a postwar migration of austerity to a modern migration of prosperity. It offers a different way of writing migration history, based on life histories but exploring mentalities as well as experiences, against a setting of deep social and economic change. Key moments are the 1970s loss of Britons' privilege in Commonwealth destination countries, 'Thatcher's refugees' in the 1980s and shifting attitudes to cosmopolitanism and global citizenship by the 1990s. It charts a long process of change from the 1960s to patterns of discretionary and nomadic migration, which became more common practice from the end of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526116598
• Artikelnr.: 57473466

Autorenporträt

A. James Hammerton is Emeritus Scholar in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The modern drive to emigrate PART I: MIGRATION FROM AUSTERITY
TO PROSPERITY 1. Post-war pioneers of modern mobility: the 1940s to the
1960s 2. The decline of British privilege: migrants of the 1970s 3.
Thatcher's refugees and Thatcher's beneficiaries: discretionary migration
in the 1980s 4. Migration, cosmopolitanism and 'global citizenship' from
the 1990s PART II: LIFE STORIES OF MODERN MIGRATION 5. Migration and career
stories: work in an age of mobility 6. Family, love, marriage and
migration: the push and pull of private life 7. The quest for new
lifestyles: migration, treechange and grey nomads 8. Changing faces of
modern migration Appendix: Tables 1-8 Bibliography Index