Annabelle Wilkins

Migration, Work and Home-Making in the City

Dwelling and Belonging among Vietnamese Communities in London

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This book explores the relationships between home, work and migration among Vietnamese people in East London, demonstrating the diversity of home-making practices and forms of belonging in relation to the dwelling, workplace and wider city. Engaging with wider scholarship on transnationalism, urban mobilities and the geopolitical dimensions of home among migrants and diasporic communities, the author draws on ethnographic work to examine the experiences of people who migrated from Vietnam to London at different times and in diverse circumstances, including individuals who arrived as refugees in the 1970s, as well as those who have migrated fo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-351-26767-0
EAN: 9781351267670
Produktnummer: 31340141
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 190 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'934 KB
Abbildungen: 13 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 13 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor

Annabelle Wilkins is Research Associate in the Division of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, within the project 'Translation, interpreting and the British humanitarian response to asylum seeker and refugee arrivals since the 1940s'. She holds a PhD in Geography from Queen Mary University of London, and her research interests are in home, work, migration and the city. She has published in journals including Area and Gender and Place and Culture, and in the edited collection Spaces of Spirituality.