1st Edition

British Migration Privilege, Diversity and Vulnerability

Edited By Pauline Leonard, Katie Walsh Copyright 2019
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

Around 5.6 million British nationals live outside the United Kingdom: the equivalent of one in every ten Britons. However, social science research, as well as public interest, has tended to focus more on the numbers of migrants entering the UK, rather than those leaving. This book provides an important counterbalance, drawing on the latest empirical research and theoretical developments to... Read more

1. Introduction: British migration: privilege, diversity and vulnerability 2. Constellations of privilege: the racialised and classed formation of Britons living in rural France 3. Home consumption and belonging among British migrants in Western Australia 4. British migrant orientations in Singapore: negotiating expatriate identities 5. Post-colonial liminality: ‘expatriate’ narratives in the East Africa Women’s League 6. Transgressing transnational normativity? British migration and interracial marriage in South Africa 7. British-born Indian second-generation ‘return’ to India 8. Britishness abroad: national identities for contemporary British migrants living in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand 9. Size matters: British women’s embodied experiences of size in Singapore 10. Resilience and social support among ageing British migrants in Spain 11. Returning at retirement: British migrants coming ‘home’ in later life

Biography

Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK.





Katie Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.