Migration, Space and Transnational Identities
Subtitle: The British in South Africa
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 10, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780230346574
Description: This timely text explores the lives, histories and identities of white British-born immigrants in South Africa, twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office. Drawing on over sixty in depth biographical interviews and ethnographic work in Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town, Daniel Conway and Pauline Leonard analyse how British immigrants' relate to, participate in and embody South Africa's complex racial and political history. Through their everyday lives, political and social attitudes, relationships with the places and spaces of South Africa, as well as their expectations of the future, the complexities of their transnational, raced and classed identities and senses of belonging are revealed. Migration, Space and Transnational Identities makes an important contribution to sociological, geographical, political and anthropological debates on transnational migration, whiteness, Britishness and lifestyle, tourism and labour migration.
Notes: Source title: Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)