The British Migrant Experience, 1700-2000
Subtitle: An Anthology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780333998632
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; Immigration & emigration; Social History; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History - General History; History: World; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Emigration & Immigration; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; Historical - General; Biography; Emigration and immigration; Ethnic relations; Great Britain; History; Immigrants; Minorities; Sources
First sentence: All migrant experience, seemingly irrespective of time and place, has certain common characteristics: one is the need to move away, be it for reasons of war, reliogious persecution, poverty or the hope of betterment; another is the initial encounter with a new locality, a new landscape for an internal migrant, a new culture for an international sojourner.