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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826952103321

Autore

Colic-Peisker Val

Titolo

Migration, class, and transnational identities : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages)

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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