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Ethnicity, class, gender and migration : Greek-cypriots in Britain

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hong Kong; Avebury; 1992Description: 156pISBN:
  • 1856280381
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 ANT
Summary: This book sets out to place Cypriot migration to Britain within the con text of New Commonwealth migration as a whole and within current developments in the field of racial and ethnic relations. It provides an account of the economic and social position of Cypriots in British soci ety paying particular attention to a number of central theoretical and political debates relating to class, ethnicity, racism and gender. The book argues that migrant groups have to be understood in terms of the interaction between the internal cultural and social differentiations with in the group and the wider structural, institutional and ideological processes of the country of migration. Gender divisions and the family are seen as central in understanding the forms of settlement and the economic and social placement of a migrant group.
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This book sets out to place Cypriot migration to Britain within the con text of New Commonwealth migration as a whole and within current developments in the field of racial and ethnic relations. It provides an account of the economic and social position of Cypriots in British soci ety paying particular attention to a number of central theoretical and political debates relating to class, ethnicity, racism and gender. The book argues that migrant groups have to be understood in terms of the interaction between the internal cultural and social differentiations with in the group and the wider structural, institutional and ideological processes of the country of migration. Gender divisions and the family are seen as central in understanding the forms of settlement and the economic and social placement of a migrant group.

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