Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London -

Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London

Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces

Cangbai Wang, Terry Lamb (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2024
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78892-776-5 (ISBN)
149,55 inkl. MwSt
This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing together case studies of diverse migrant communities. They use ‘languaging’ as the central concept in the development of an interdisciplinary framework that creates an opportunity to ‘talk across disciplines’ to engage with key issues crisscrossing migration, cities and language. The book promotes ‘language-based’ or ‘language-sensitive’ research, drawing on the plurilingual repertoires and the language and translanguaging practices of migrant communities as the tool for data collection and ethnographic fieldwork. This approach generates fresh insights into the complex issues of diasporic identities, belonging and place-making, which have broad implications for migration studies in post-Brexit Britain and beyond.

Cangbai Wang is Reader in Chinese Studies at the University of Westminster, London, UK. He is the author of Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas: Migration Histories and the Cultural Heritage of the Homeland (2021, Routledge). Terry Lamb is Professor of Languages and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy at the University of Westminster, London, UK. His most recent book is Insights into Language Education Policies (ed. 2020, Peter Lang, with M. Jiménez Raya and B. Manzano Vázquez).

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Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword



Chapter 1. Cangbai Wang and Terry Lamb: Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Cities and Language: An Interdisciplinary Perspective



Part 1: 'Metrolingual Space': Cultural Translation, Language Ideologies and Diasporic Identities in a Global City



Chapter 2. Giulia Pepe: Negotiating New Migratory Identities through Multilingual Practices: The Case of Post-Crisis Italian Migrants in London



Chapter 3. Saskia Huc-Hepher and Fabrice Lyczba: 'Sorry, I’m French': Frenchness as Uneasy Resource in the Construction of Home, Identity and Belonging among French Students in London



Chapter 4. Umit Cetin and Celia Jenkins: Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of a New Ethno-Religious Identity



Part 2: 'Performative Space': Visualising, Sounding and Acting Identities in a Transnational Field



Chapter 5. Benedetta Morsiani: Performing Black Beauty: The Congolese Community in London



Chapter 6. Denise Kwan: Articulating the Subjectivities of British Chinese Women through Art and Material Objects



Chapter 7. Cangbai Wang: Negotiating Diasporic Identities in Glocal Heritage Discourses: The Case of the Chinese New Year Celebration in London



Chapter 8. Julie Marsh: Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its Congregation



Part 3: 'Heritagisation Space': Collecting, Remembering and Transmitting the Past for a Shared Future



Chapter 9. Susan L.T. Ashley: Spaces of Heritagisation: The UK Indian Communities and Memorials of War



Chapter 10. Alison Barnes: Tracing the Graphic Heritage of Hackney’s Migrant Communities through Food



Chapter 11. Xiao Ma: Contesting Everyday (Food) Heritage in London's Chinatown



Chapter 12. Ailsa Peate and Lucia Brandi: A Museum for Me: Place and Memory Making with Mujer Diáspora



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Encounters
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 530 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78892-776-1 / 1788927761
ISBN-13 978-1-78892-776-5 / 9781788927765
Zustand Neuware
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