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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright Page 2 Contents 8 List of figures 9 List of tables 11 Acknowledgements 12 List of abbreviations 14 Introduction: the modern drive to emigrate 16 Part I Migration from austerity to prosperity 40 Appendix: Tables 1–8 256 Bibliography 261 Index 270 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2017,ISBN:9781526116581,Language:English,OCLC:1119632966 This is the first social history to explore experiences of British emigrants from the peak years of the 1960s to the emigration resurgence of the turn of the twentieth century. It explores migrant experiences in Australia, Canada and New Zealand alongside other countries. The book charts the gradual reinvention of the ‘British diaspora’ from a postwar migration of austerity to a modern migration of prosperity. It offers a different way of writing migration history, based on life histories but exploring mentalities as well as experiences, against a setting of deep social and economic change. Key moments are the 1970s loss of Britons’ privilege in Commonwealth destination countries, ‘Thatcher’s refugees’ in the 1980s and shifting attitudes to cosmopolitanism and global citizenship by the 1990s. It charts a

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Author

Great Britain / Emigration and immigration / History / 20th century;Hammerton, A. James

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526116598

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Language Learning