Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London : : Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces / / Cangbai Wang, Terry Lamb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2024 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Wang, Cangbai,; Lamb, Terry,
• MitwirkendeR: Ashley, Susan L.T.,; Barnes, Alison,; Brandi, Lucia,; Cetin, Umit,; Huc-Hepher, Saskia,; Jenkins, Celia,; Kwan, Denise,; Lamb, Terry,; Linn, Andrew,; Lyczba, Fabrice,; Ma, Xiao,; Marsh, Julie,; Morsiani, Benedetta,; Peate, Ailsa,; Pepe, Giulia,; Wang, Cangbai,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Encounters ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Contributors --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword --; 1 Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Cities and Language: An Interdisciplinary Perspective --; Part 1 ‘Metrolingual Space’: Cultural Translation, Language Ideologies and Diasporic Identities in a Global City --; 2 Negotiating New Migratory Identities through Multilingual Practices: The Case of Post-Crisis Italian Migrants in London --; 3 ‘Sorry, I’m French’: Frenchness as Uneasy Resource in the Construction of Home, Identity and Belonging among French Students in London --; 4 Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of a New Ethno-Religious Identity --; Part 2 ‘Performative Space’: Visualising, Sounding and Acting Identities in a Transnational Field --; 5 Performing Black Beauty: The Congolese Community in London --; 6 Articulating the Subjectivities of British Chinese Women through Art and Material Objects --; 7 Negotiating Diasporic Identities in Glocal Heritage Discourses: The Case of the Chinese New Year Celebration in London --; 8 Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its Congregation --; Part 3 ‘Heritagisation Space’: Collecting, Remembering and Transmitting the Past for a Shared Future --; 9 Spaces of Heritagisation: The UK Indian Communities and Memorials of War --; 10 Tracing the Graphic Heritage of Hackney’s Migrant Communities through Food --; 11 Contesting Everyday (Food) Heritage in London’s Chinatown --; 12 A Museum for Me: Place and Memory Making with Mujer Diáspora --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781788927772; 9783111332383; 9783111428390
• DOI: 10.21832/9781788927772
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Cangbai Wang, Terry Lamb.

This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing together case studies of diverse migrant communities.