Author: Hugh Llewelyn
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1445677989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hugh Llewelyn takes a look at the wide variety of traction in and around London over several decades.
Author: Daniel Nilsson DeHanas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 019874367X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study concerns the role of religion in the civic integration of London's second-generation youth through comparative ethnographic studies of two groups: the predominantly Christian Jamaican population in Brixton and the predominantly Muslim Bangladeshi population of the East End.
Author: Lori Gemeiner Bihler
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2018-03-14
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 143846889X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City. In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tolerant countries. Cities of Refuge compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspapers, organizational documents, and oral histories. Lori Gemeiner Bihler examines institutions, neighborhoods, employment, language use, name changes, dress, family dynamics, and domestic life in these two cities to determine why immigrants in London adopted local customs more quickly than those in New York City, yet identified less as British than their counterparts in the United States did as American. By highlighting a disparity between integration and identity formation, Bihler challenges traditional theories of assimilation and provides a new framework for the study of refugees and migration. Lori Gemeiner Bihler is Assistant Professor of History at Framingham State University.