Stories from a migrant city : living and working together in the shadow of Brexit
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Stories from a migrant city : living and working together in the shadow of Brexit
Manchester University Press, 2020
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-226) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Non-elite cosmopolitanism in the Brexit era
2 'India's my heart, and I know I'm an Indian': histories of mobility and fixity
3 'If not you, they can get ten different workers in your place': racial capitalism and workplace resistance
4 'We're not just guardians of the area but of the whole city': urban citizenship struggles and the racialised outsider
5 'And then we just let our creativity take over': cultural production in a provincial city
6 Conclusion: the immigration debate and common anger in dangerous times
Acknowledgements
Bibliography -- .
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