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Stories from a Migrant City : Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526131720
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stories from a Migrant CityDDC classification:
  • 304.841
LOC classification:
  • HM1271 .R643 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: non-elite cosmopolitanism in the Brexit era -- 'India's my heart, and I know I'm an Indian': histories of mobility and fixity -- 'If not you, they can get ten different workers in your place': racial capitalism and workplace resistance -- 'We're not just guardians of the area but of the whole city': urban citizenship struggles and the racialised outsider -- 'And then we just let our creativity take over': cultural production in a provincial city -- Conclusion: the immigration debate and common anger in dangerous times -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided.
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: non-elite cosmopolitanism in the Brexit era -- 'India's my heart, and I know I'm an Indian': histories of mobility and fixity -- 'If not you, they can get ten different workers in your place': racial capitalism and workplace resistance -- 'We're not just guardians of the area but of the whole city': urban citizenship struggles and the racialised outsider -- 'And then we just let our creativity take over': cultural production in a provincial city -- Conclusion: the immigration debate and common anger in dangerous times -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index.

Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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