In recent years, political attention has increasingly focused on the issue of immigration to the UK. In contrast to the belief that migrants are a 'risk' to a society and have put significant pressure on the British health and social system, Briggs and Dobre debunk the 'othering' of migrants to provide a more humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, by examining the cultural and structural barriers for the Romanian labour force who come to work in London. Culture and Immigration in Context acts as a critique to the dominant, economic-modelled field of migrant studies by offering an ethnographic lens which is social, political and subjective in its vista to reveal the lived experience of Romanian migrant workers in Britain who have left the debt and corruption of their home life in the hope of finding something better in Britain.
- ISBN10 1137380624
- ISBN13 9781137380623
- Publish Date 20 October 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Imprint Palgrave Pivot
- Format eBook
- Pages 144
- Language English