Migration, class, and transnational identities
Subtitle: Croatians in Australia and America
By: Val Colic-Peisker.
Series: Studies of world migrations
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780252033605
Subjects: Croats -- Australia -- Social conditions; Croatian Americans -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- Australia -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; Croats -- Australia -- Ethnic identity; Croatian Americans -- Ethnic identity; Transnationalism; Globalization -- Social aspects; Australia -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Harnessing concepts and theories from sociology, anthropology, and political Science, this interdisciplinary study compares the vastly different experiences of two Croatian immigrant cohorts who have settled in the city of Perth in Western Australia. The populations explored represent an earlier group of Working-class migrants arriving from communist Yugoslavia from the 1950s to 1970s and a later group of urban professionals arriving in the 1980s and 1990s as 'independent' or skills-based migrants." "Employing a refined theoretical analysis, this ethnography challenges the domination of the ethnic perspective in migration studies and the idea of ethnic community itself. It underscores the importance of class, focusing on the intersection of class, ethnicity, and gender in the process of migration, migrant incorporation, and transnationalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The homeland; title: The global context; title: The hostland : a designer nation; title: Farewell, my village by the sea : working-class Croatians in Australian suburbia; title: Ubi lucrum, ibi patria : incorporation and transnationalism of the professional cohort; title: The Croatian diaspora : transnationalism, class, and identity; title: From communism to capitalism : altered values and shifting identities?; title: Conclusion: Between or beyond nations? Class, ethnicity, and transnationalism in the global century.