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Stories from a migrant city: living and working together in the shadow of Brexit

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posted on 2023-06-09, 18:25 authored by Ben RogalyBen Rogaly
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.

Funding

Creative interruptions: Grassroots creativity, state structures and disconnection as a space for 'radical openness'; G2087; AHRC-ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL; R33412 - AH/N004094/1

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Pages

224.0

Place of publication

Manchester

ISBN

9781526131744

Department affiliated with

  • Geography Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Centre for Migration Research Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-07-16

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-07-15

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