Migration and identity
By: special editors, Rina Benmayor and Andor Skotnes.
Contributors: Benmayor, Rina.; Skotnes, Andor.
Series: International yearbook of oral history and life stories ;; v. 3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Immigrants.; Group identity.
Description: Migration and Identity is the third volume in the series International Yearbook of Oral Histories and Life Stories. Its theme is of special concern at a time both of massive worldwide migration and of apparently intensifying national, ethnic, and racial conflicts.

The essays in this volume examine how the identities of migrants are shaped not only by gender, class, and ethnicity, but also by the experience of migration itself; and how migration is thus a crucible for both individual development and wider social change today.

Guest-edited from the United States and with a special relevance to the Americas, this volume spans the whole complex global web of migratory patterns with contributions linking Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, without losing the particularities of local and personal experience.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Some reflections on migration and identity / Rina Benmayer and Andor Skotnes; title: In search of safe haven : exile, immigration, and identity / Iván Jaksić; title: The apple and the olive tree : exiles, sojourners, and tourists in the university / Francesca Battisti and Alessandro Portelli; title: The Senegalese immigrants in Bari / Dorothy Louise Zinn; title: On becoming a citizen : the story of Dona Marlene / Evelina Dagnino; title: Identity, racism, and multi-culturalism : Chinese-Australian responses / Janis Wilton; title: Ethiopian Jews encounter Israel / Gadi Ben-Ezer; title: Family and identity : Barbadian migrants to Britain / Mary Chamberlain; title: Puerto Rican women / Elizabeth Crespo; title: Identity and gender in the Mexican-American testimonio : the life and narrative of Frances Esquivel Tywoniak / Mario T. García; title: Central American refugee testimonies and performed life histories in the Sanctuary Movement / William Westerman; title: Between identities : Homi Bhabha / interviewed by Paul Thompson.