This book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity. Drawing on over one hundred stories and eight years of research in a provincial English city, Rogaly asks what that city (and indeed England as a whole) stands for in the Brexit era. Stories from the city's homes and streets, and from its warehouse and food factory workplaces, challenge middle-class condescension towards working-class cultures. They also reveal a non-elite cosmopolitanism, which contrasts with the more familiar association of cosmopolitanism with elites. The book combines critique with resources for hope. It is aimed at general readers as well as students and lecturers in geography, sociology, migration studies and oral history.
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Stories from a migrant city
Living and working together in the shadow of Brexit
- 224 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: non-elite cosmopolitanism in the Brexit era
- 2 ‘India’s my heart, and I know I’m an Indian’: histories of mobility and fixity
- 3 ‘If not you, they can get ten different workers in your place’: racial capitalism and workplace resistance
- 4 ‘We’re not just guardians of the area but of the whole city’: urban citizenship struggles and the racialised outsider
- 5 ‘And then we just let our creativity take over’: cultural production in a provincial city
- Conclusion: the immigration debate and common anger in dangerous times
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
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