History, memory and migration: perceptions of the past and the politics of incorporation

As the growing diversity of societies is recognised as both an asset and a challenge, academia has been forced to re-evaluate some of its basic assumptionsabout migrant incorporation and social memories. However, scholars have rarely combined Migration Studies and Memory Studies to consider how perceptions ofthe past affect the incorporation of immigrants in their host societies. The authors in this volume merge the extensive knowledge and relevant findings produced in both fields. They demonstrate, through a series of empirical studies from Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East, how various actors have referenced diverse conceptions of their local, regional and national pasts to include and exclude immigrants from receiving societies. By focusing on how the presentation of a certain past relates to the immigration present, the book aims to examine the relationship between the politics of memory andthe incorporation of immigrants. . INDICE: List of Illustrations.Foreword; .J.Winter.Notes on Contributors.The Memory and Migration Nexus: An Overview;. I.Glynn. & .J.O.Kleist.PART I: MIGRANT MEMORIES.Cultures of History:The New Left, South Asians, and Historical Memory in Post-war England; .K.Meyers.'I am also a foreigner, but with me it's different': Polish Displaced Persons, War Memory and Ethnification in Belgium;.M.Venken.Using History to Relate: How Teenagers in Germany Use History to Orient Themselves Between Nationalities; .J.Raasch.PART II: MEMORIES IN DIVERSE SOCIETIES.Caught between Two Worlds: The Europeans of Algeria in France after 1962; .M.Baussant.Remembering Egypt: Evangelicals, Conservatism and Immigration in America; .H.B.Leaman.African Asylum Seekers and the Changing Politics of Memory in Israel; .M.Ram. & .H.Yacobi.Past Migrations, Contemporary Representations and Complex Multicultures in London; .M.J.Hickman., .H.Crowley. & .N.Mai.PART III: MIGRATION MEMORIES AND THE STATE.Famine Commemorations and Asylum Debates in Ireland Conflated; .I.Glynn.Migrant Incorporation and Political Memories: Transformations of Civic and Cultural Belonging in Australia since 1949;.J.O.Kleist.Songs for the Nation: Migrant Pasts and Global Futures in Singapore; .K.E.Y.Low.Notes.Index .

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29338-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 27/04/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido