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

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

Rogaly, Ben

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AnthropologyGeneral SociologyBritish History

ISBN10: 1526131749
ISBN13: 9781526131744
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 30 2020
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Nationalists and nativists often blame the figure of the immigrant 'other' for society's ills, contrasting this with the 'local' or 'native' whose livelihood and way of life are seen as under threat from immigration. Being at ease with difference is seen as the worldview of a cosmopolitan elite.

Stories from a migrant city argues for an urgent transformation of how such terms are understood and deployed. Drawing on eight years of research in an English provincial city and a biographical approach to oral history, this book challenges the ways in which people have come to be seen as 'migrants' or 'locals' and understood to have opposing interests. Non-elite cosmopolitanism is shown to be alive and well, in spite of racism, the legacies of empire and the devastating effects of four decades of neoliberalism.

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