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French London: A blended ethnography of a migrant city (New Ethnographies) by Saskia Huc-Hepher, Alexander Smith - undifferentiated is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is French London: A blended ethnography of a migrant city (New Ethnographies) about?

Who are the people that make up London's French community and why did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is ‘Frenchness'played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces? And what impact has Brexit had on French Londoners'sense of belonging, identity and embeddedness? French London offers an unprecedented perspective on the everyday lived experience of French migrants in London. Based on years of immersive on-land and on-line empirical enquiry, the book uncovers the motivations underlying mobility from France and the appeal of London as a long-term home. Through the individual (hi)stories of a diverse group of French Londoners and an ethnosemiotic analysis of blogs and websites, London emerges as a place of liberation and openness, where migrants are free from inequalities encountered in the birthplace of l'égalité, whether in education, work or wider society. This volume explores the messy complexity and paradoxical ambivalence of cross-Channel mobility, including here–there, explicit–implicit, physical–digital, subject–object and reinvention–reproduction dichotomies. Structured around Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic violence and habitus, the book consi

Author

Saskia Huc-Hepher, Alexander Smith - undifferentiated

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526143334

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Anthropology