Journeys of refugees and other migrants are typically represented as linear movements
between two places with the academic and policy gaze directed primarily towards the places …

The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed
British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic …

Immigration, ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism have become part of daily discourse in
Britain in recent decades–yet, far from being new, these phenomena have characterised …

This new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides students with a thorough and
grounded understanding of multiple dimensions of migration, including labour markets …

You'd go dancing, you'd go to the nightclubs and things and you'd be dancing with a guy
and he'd say,'Oh there's nothing happening in Peterborough and in London we do this, and …

For the 4th of July 2010, the online edition of the New York Times asked selected writers and
historians to describe how immigrants today cele-brate Independence Day in the United …

It has been argued that the 'mobility turn'is overcelebratory regarding human movement
across space. Yet, critical studies of mobilities have emerged that refute this, demonstrating …

Immigrants in Britain are often viewed as just that-'immigrants'. Their experiences as
migrants are sidelined in favour of discussions about assimilation and integration …

This special issue opens up a conversation between three multidisciplinary fields: memory
studies, diaspora studies and refugee studies. The introductory paper articulates an …

Using in-depth life-story interviews and oral history archives, this book explores the impact of
South Asian migration from the 1950s onwards on both the local white, British-born …