Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Border

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

FiguresContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordChapter 1. Cangbai Wang and Terry Lamb: Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Cities and Language: An Interdisciplinary PerspectivePart 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 LondonChapter 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 LondonChapter 4. Umit Cetin and Celia Jenkins: Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of a New Ethno-Religious IdentityPart 2: 'Performative Space': Visualising, Sounding and Acting Identities in a Transnational FieldChapter 5. Benedetta Morsiani: Performing Black Beauty: The Congolese Community in LondonChapter 6. Denise Kwan: Articulating the Subjectivities of British Chinese Women through Art and Material ObjectsChapter 7. Cangbai Wang: Negotiating Diasporic Identities in Glocal Heritage Discourses: The Case of the Chinese New Year Celebration in LondonChapter 8. Julie Marsh: Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its CongregationPart 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 WarChapter 10. Alison Barnes: Tracing the Graphic Heritage of Hackney's Migrant Communities through FoodChapter 11. Xiao Ma: Contesting Everyday (Food) Heritage in London's ChinatownChapter 12. Ailsa Peate and Lucia Brandi: A Museum for Me: Place and Memory Making with Mujer DiásporaIndex

Review

This superb book showcases how it is the creative agency of migrants from around the world that makes the vibrant, dynamic and hugely energetic – call it 'trans-ethnic' – urban landscape that is the city of London. As such, the book provides a superb antidote to today's climate of heightened anti-migrant sentiment and exclusionary cultural nationalism. A must-read for all cosmopolitans! * Ien Ang, Western Sydney University, Australia *One of the factors shaping one's social and ethnic identity is language. This is particularly true among migrants. In comparison to other research on the socio-economic-political development of migrants, to date there has been little research on the formation and/or transformation of identities from the perspective of language. This book examines the negotiation of identities among migrants with a focus on language to fill this research gap. It is an indispensable reference not only for migrants, but also for researchers, educators and policymakers. * Victor Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong *

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Breaks new ground with an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to migration studies

Details ISBN1788927753 Author Terry Lamb Publisher Multilingual Matters Series Encounters Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781788927758 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-01-16 Imprint Multilingual Matters Subtitle Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781788927765 Edited by Terry Lamb Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly UK Release Date 2024-01-16 ISBN-10 1788927753 Pages 320 DEWEY 306.09421 We've got this

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