"This book examines how the mass movement of African Americans from the South to the North from approximately 1915 to 1970--the movement commonly known as the Great Migration--helped change the relative positions and policy stances on racial politics for the major American polit…
"As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her o…
"This book highlights the strengths and benefits from new cultural networking practices but also the challenges and issues that arise, how these could be addressed and what lessons can be learnt. It also sets out to answer the questions 'how.' How can we leverage the power of cr…
"Language Education and Migration provides a lively and critical introduction to policy and practice in language migrant education in a range of countries around the world. Migration has become a contentious issue with the numbers and needs of migrants often outpacing the develo…
"Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Ol…
To most of us the food that we associate with home-our national and familial homes-is an essential part of our cultural heritage. No matter how open we become to other cuisines, we regard home-cooking as an intrinsic part of who we are. In this book, Krishnendu Ray examines the …
"More Than Two to Tango gives a detailed portrait of the Argentine immigrant community, where tango is both an art form and a means of survival"--
This edited collection explores how the gender identity of men from non-English-speaking backgrounds is influenced by the experiences of migration and settlement in an English-speaking culture, across various cultural spheres such as work, leisure, family life and religion.
"21 writers explore what it means to be black, Asian and minority ethnic in Britain today."--Cover
