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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457406603321

Autore

Colic-Peisker Val

Titolo

Migration, class, and transnational identities [[electronic resource] ] : Croatians in Australia and America / / Val Colic-Peisker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008

ISBN

1-283-15567-2

9786613155672

0-252-09086-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Studies of world migrations

Disciplina

305.89183073

Soggetti

Croats - Australia - Social conditions

Croatian Americans - Social conditions

Immigrants - Australia - Social conditions

Immigrants - United States - Social conditions

Croats - Australia - Ethnic identity

Croatian Americans - Ethnic identity

Transnationalism

Globalization - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Australia Ethnic relations

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.