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French London - A Blended Ethnography of a Migrant City (Hardcover)
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French London - A Blended Ethnography of a Migrant City (Hardcover)
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Who are the people that make up London's French community and why
did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is
'Frenchness' played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces?
And what impact has Brexit had on French Londoners' sense of
belonging, identity and embeddedness? French London offers an
unprecedented perspective on the everyday lived experience of
French migrants in London. Based on years of immersive on-land and
on-line empirical enquiry, the book uncovers the motivations
underlying mobility from France and the appeal of London as a
long-term home. Through the individual (hi)stories of a diverse
group of French Londoners and an ethnosemiotic analysis of blogs
and websites, London emerges as a place of liberation and openness,
where migrants are free from inequalities encountered in the
birthplace of l'egalite, whether in education, work or wider
society. This volume explores the messy complexity and paradoxical
ambivalence of cross-Channel mobility, including here-there,
explicit-implicit, physical-digital, subject-object and
reinvention-reproduction dichotomies. Structured around Pierre
Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic violence and habitus, the book
considers how apparently pragmatic mobility decision-making is
often underpinned by powerful social, affective and pre-reflective
factors. Its subdivision of habitus into three interrelated
components - habitat, habituation and habits - provides an
enlightening conceptual lens to examine participants' material
lifeworlds, the gradual creep of settlement, and a 'common-unity'
of practice. From schooling and healthcare to eating and drinking,
the migrants' evolving behaviours, attitudes, identities and
belongings are expertly scrutinised. Spanning pre- and post-Brexit
periods, this timely book gives voice to a largely neglected
minority and offers a linguistically and culturally sensitive
insight into French migrants' on-land trajectories and on-line
representations. -- .
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