Migration, class, and transnational identities : Croatians in Australia and America / Val Colic-Peisker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colic-Peisker, Val.

Series:

Studies of world migrations.

Studies of world migrations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Croats--Australia--Social conditions.

Croats.

Croatian Americans--Social conditions.

Croatian Americans.

Immigrants--Australia--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Croats--Australia--Ethnic identity.

Croatian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Transnationalism.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Australia--Ethnic relations.

Australia.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Harnessing concepts and theories from sociology, anthropology, and political Science, this interdisciplinary study compares the vastly different experiences of two Croatian immigrant cohorts who have settled in the city of Perth in Western Australia. The populations explored represent an earlier group of Working-class migrants arriving from communist Yugoslavia from the 1950s to 1970s and a later group of urban professionals arriving in the 1980s and 1990s as 'independent' or skills-based migrants." "Employing a refined theoretical analysis, this ethnography challenges the domination of the ethnic perspective in migration studies and the idea of ethnic community itself. It underscores the importance of class, focusing on the intersection of class, ethnicity, and gender in the process of migration, migrant incorporation, and transnationalism."--Jacket

Contents:

The homeland

The global context

The hostland : a designed nation

Farewell, my village by the sea : working-class Croatians in Australian suburbia

Ubi lucrum, ibi patria : incorporation and transnationalism of the professional cohort

The Croatian diaspora : transnationalism, class, and identity

From communism to capitalism : altered values and shifting identities?

Conclusion: Between or beyond nations? Class, ethnicity, and transnationalism in the global century.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-248) and index.

ISBN:

9786613155672

9781283155670

1283155672

9780252090868

0252090861

OCLC:

743203951