Migration, space and transnational identities [Elektronisk resurs] the British in South Africa / Daniel Conway, Pauline Leonard.

• 1. The British in South Africa: Continuity or Change? 2. The Historical, Political and Social Dynamics of British Migration to South Africa 3.Transnational and Translocal Identities: Settling in South Africa 4. Space and Place in South Africa 5. Landscapes of Belonging: Negotiating Britishness in South Africa 6. The Landscapes of Un/belonging in South Africa 7. Narratives of Continuity and Change: British Social and Political Attitudes in South Africa 8. The British in South Africa: Conclusion.

• Twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office, this timely text interrogates the extent to which the attitudes, identities and everyday lives of British people have changed in accordance with the 'new' South Africa. New ethnographic research is drawn upon to explore important questions of mobility, locality and identity. -- This timely text explores the lives, histories and identities of white British-born immigrants in South Africa, twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office. Drawing on over sixty in depth biographical interviews and ethnographic work in Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town, Daniel Conway and Pauline Leonard analyse how British immigrants' relate to, participate in and embody South Africa's complex racial and political history. Through their everyday lives, political and social attitudes, relationships with the places and spaces of South Africa, as well as their expectations of the future, the complexities of their transnational, raced and classed identities and senses of belonging are revealed. Migration, Space and Transnational Identities makes an important contribution to sociological, geographical, political and anthropological debates on transnational migration, whiteness, Britishness and lifestyle, tourism and labour migration. 
• 'A beautiful portrait of the domestic and public spaces lived by the British in South Africa. This book weaves together biographies and social analysis, providing a compelling account of lifestyle migration, whiteness and contemporary South Africa.' - Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 'A beautifully written book that is a wonderful contribution and challenge to literature on privileged and lifestyle migration. This is full of truly incredible and painful stories, evocative of the power, privilege, and ambiguity inherent in these migrants' lives.' - Karen O'Reilly, Loughborough University, UK. 

Ämnesord

British  -- History -- South Africa. (LCSH)

British  -- Cultural assimilation -- South Africa. (LCSH)

Group identity  -- South Africa. (LCSH)

Society.  (ukslc)

Migration, immigration & emigration  -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Republic of South Africa. (thema)

Globalization  -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Republic of South Africa. (thema)

Ethnic studies  -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Republic of South Africa. (thema)

South Africa  -- English-Afrikaner relations. (LCSH)

South Africa  -- History -- 1994. (LCSH)

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JBFH (ämneskategori)

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JBSL (ämneskategori)

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