Books

Promoted Content

Medicine

November 2019

Migrant architects of the NHS

South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)

by Julian Simpson, Keir Waddington

Migrant architects of the NHS draws on forty-five oral history interviews and extensive archival research to offer a radical reappraisal of how the National Health Service was made. It tells the story of migrant South Asian doctors who became general practitioners in the NHS. Imperial legacies, professional discrimination and an exodus of UK-trained doctors combined to direct these doctors towards work as GPs in some of the most deprived parts of the UK. In some areas, they made up over half of the general practitioner workforce. The NHS was structurally dependent on them and they shaped British society and medicine through their agency. Aimed at students and academics with interests in the history of immigration, immigration studies, the history of medicine, South Asian studies and oral history. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about how Empire and migration have contributed to making Britain what it is today.

More
Promoted Content

Sport & leisure industries

July 2006

Amenity Migrants

Seeking and Sustaining Mountains and Their Cultures

by Edited by Laurence A G Moss

Places with perceived high environmental quality and distinctive culture are globally attracting amenity migrants. Today this societal driving force is particularly manifest in mountain areas, and while beneficial for both the new comers and locals, is also threatening highland ecologies and their human communities. This book describes and analyses the challenges and opportunities of amenity migration and its management, and offers related recommendations.The book's chapters cover the subject through case studies at international, regional and local levels, along with overarching themes such as environmental sustainability and equity, mountain recreation users, housing, and spiritual motivation. A crucial issue addressed is the relationship of amenity migration to tourism, and migration motivated by economic gain. The introduction and concluding chapters bring all of the information and analyses together strategically, summarising in a manner of theoretical and practical value for both academics and practitioners.

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Migrant races

Empire,Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji

by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Satadru Sen

This book is a study of mobility, image and identity in colonial India and imperial Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a model for studies of migrant figures like K.S. Ranjitsinhji who emerged during the imperial period. Ranjitsinhji is an important figure in the history of modern India and the British empire because he was recognized as a great athlete and described as such. The book focuses on four aspects of Ranjitsinhji's life as a colonial subject: race, money, loyalty and gender. It touches upon Ranjitsinhji's career as a cricketer in the race section. The issue of money gave Indian critics of Ranjitsinhji's regime the language they needed to condemn his personal and administrative priorities, and to portray him as self-indulgent. Ranjitsinhji lived his life as a player of multiple gender roles: sometimes serially, and on occasion simultaneously. His status as a "prince" - while not entirely fake - was fragile enough to be unreliable, and he worked hard to reinforce it even as he constructed his Englishness. Any Indian attempt to transcend race, culture, climate and political place by imitating an English institution and its product must be an unnatural act of insurgency. The disdain for colonial politics that was manifest in the "small rebellions" at the end of the world war converged with the colonized/Indian identity that was evident at the League of Nations. Between the war and his death, it is clear, Ranjitsinhji moved to maximize his autonomy in Nawanagar.

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2022

Migrants shaping Europe, past and present

by Helen Solterer, Vincent Joos

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2021

Bordering Britain

by Nadine El-Enany

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Emigrant homecomings

The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000

by Marjory Harper

Emigrant Homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite evidence that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between a quarter and a third of all emigrants from many parts of Britain and Europe ultimately returned to their countries of origin. Emigrant Homecomings analyses the motives, experiences and impact of these returning migrants in a wide range of locations over four hundred years, as well as examining the mechanisms and technologies which enabled their return. The book examines the multiple identities that migrants adopted and the huge range and complexity of homecomers' motives and experiences. It also dissects migrants' perception of 'home' and the social, economic, cultural and political change that their return engendered.

More
Trusted Partner

June 2024

At the Very Bottom of the System

How migrant workersensure prosperity for us

by Sascha Lübbe

The author reveals structural problems and offers solutions – an urgently necessary book, not least with a view to the acute shortage of skilled workers 450,000 migrant workers toll on German construction sites, work in sometimes inhumane conditions in meat factories or as truck drivers, and let’s not forget the hordes of cleaners in German hotels and companies. They are systematically exploited and cheated out of their wages. Sascha Lübbe exposes the octopus-like network of partly criminal companies in a shadowy world where the boundary between the legal and the illegal is blurred. In his evocative book with interviews with those aff ected, he reveals how a parallel system has established itself in the German working world, but also how those aff ected resist.

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2019

Migrants of the British diaspora since the 1960s

by A. James Hammerton

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2024

Bartered bridegrooms

Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy

by Suriyah Bi

In this eye-opening ethnography, we learn about the experiences of Muslim migrant husbands from Pakistan and Kashmir, who marry their British counterparts in the hope of marital and global social mobility bliss. For many, the parallel and intertwined migration and marital journeys do not pan out in the way they had hoped. Many experience precarity and vulnerability within the household and/or in employment, with some even being subjected to harrowing forms of domestic violence. Migrant husbands navigate an increasingly hostile British immigration system not only in public but also in private, at the hands of their wives and in-laws. The ethnography demonstrates how citizenship can be deployed as a performance of white power within single group identity, differentiated through colonial legacies of 'Britishness'.

More
Trusted Partner

June 2012

Migrants' Health Seeking Actions in Guangzhou, China

Individual Action, Structure and Agency: Linkages and Change

by Bork-Hüffer, Tabea

More
Trusted Partner

Medicine

December 2017

Migrant architects of the NHS

by Julian Simpson

More
Trusted Partner

Geography & the Environment

March 2020

Stories from a migrant city

by Ben Rogaly

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2020

How media and conflicts make migrants

by Kirsten Forkert, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Federico Oliveri, Janna Graham

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2020

Rethinking settlement and integration

by Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska

More
Trusted Partner

Migration, immigration & emigration

July 2015

Immigration and housing in the Republic of Ireland

by Brian Portley

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of migrants' housing experiences in Ireland. It introduces, in an accessible manner, the key factors that determine how well migrants can engage with Ireland's housing system. It outlines the opportunities and challenges migrants encounter accessing housing and benefits from analysis drawn from the actual lived housing experience of migrants whose homes are located in inner-city, town and small town locations in Ireland. Therefore, this book is positioned to highlight differences between various groups of migrants living in contrasting locations in Ireland and argues that housing policy development can be informed by the consideration given to migrants' meanings and perceptions of housing.

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2020

Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England

by Barry Hazley

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2012

Emigrant homecomings

The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000

by Andrew Thompson, Marjory Harper, John Mackenzie

Emigrant homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite evidence that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between a quarter and a third of all emigrants from many parts of Britain and Europe ultimately returned to their countries of origin. Emigrant homecomings analyses the motives, experiences and impact of these returning migrants in a wide range of locations over four hundred years, as well as examining the mechanisms and technologies which enabled their return. The book examines the multiple identities that migrants adopted and the huge range and complexity of homecomers' motives and experiences. It also dissects migrants' perception of 'home' and the social, economic, cultural and political change that their return engendered. ;

More
Trusted Partner

General & world history

May 2005

‘Ten Pound Poms’

A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia

by A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson

More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of their experience and fills a gaping hole in the literature of emigration. The authors, both leading figures in the fields of oral history and migration studies, draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and hundreds of oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original interpretations of key historical themes, including: motivations for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of migration; the 'very familiar and awfully strange' confrontation with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees, fifty years on. Accessible and appealing, this book will engage readers interested in British and Australian migration history and intrigued about the significance of migrant memories for individuals, families and nations.

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2008

Immigration and European integration

Towards fortress Europe

by Andrew Geddes, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Simon Bulmer, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys

Migration is at the heart of the contemporary European Union. This new edition addresses three key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy. First, what role does the EU play in the regulation of migration? Second, how and why have EU measures developed to promote the integration of migrants and their descendants? Third, what impact do EU measures on migration and asylum have on new member states and non member states? The updated edition covers important recent developments, addressing new migration flows and the external dimension of EU action on migration and asylum and placing in all these in the context of a 'wider' Europe. Andrew Geddes provides comprehensive analysis of the EU's free movement framework, of the development of co-operation on immigration and asylum policy, of the mobilisation by groups seeking to represent migrant's interests in EU decision-making, the interface between migration, welfare and the EU's social dimension, and the impact of enlargement on migration and asylum. This innovative and original analysis of the European dimension of immigration policy is essential reading for scholars of European integration, the politics of immigration and the prospects for new patterns of migrant inclusion at member state and EU level. ;

More
Trusted Partner

Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2016

Divergent paths

by John Herson

More

Your Search Results

Search Term Options

Filter your results

South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)

by Julian Simpson, Keir Waddington

Seeking and Sustaining Mountains and Their Cultures

by Edited by Laurence A G Moss

Empire,Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji

by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Satadru Sen

by Helen Solterer, Vincent Joos

by Nadine El-Enany

The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000

by Marjory Harper

How migrant workersensure prosperity for us

by Sascha Lübbe

by A. James Hammerton

Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy

by Suriyah Bi

Individual Action, Structure and Agency: Linkages and Change

by Bork-Hüffer, Tabea

by Julian Simpson

by Ben Rogaly

by Kirsten Forkert, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Federico Oliveri, Janna Graham

by Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska

by Brian Portley

by Barry Hazley

The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000

by Andrew Thompson, Marjory Harper, John Mackenzie

A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia

by A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson

Towards fortress Europe

by Andrew Geddes, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Simon Bulmer, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys

by John Herson

Subscribe to our

newsletter

Oops, payment failed.