Discourses in Place
Discourses in Place contextualize actions in their time and place. This chapter outlines the discourses that influenced participants’ migration expectations and decisions, and discourses that impacted their post-migration realities. Their narrated push an
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Intergenerational Consequences of Lifestyle Migration German-speaking Immigrants in New Zealand
Intergenerational Consequences of Lifestyle Migration
Irmengard K. Wohlfart
Intergenerational Consequences of Lifestyle Migration German-speaking Immigrants in New Zealand
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Irmengard K. Wohlfart School of Language and Culture Auckland University of Technology Auckland New Zealand
ISBN 978-981-10-3258-5 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3260-8
ISBN 978-981-10-3260-8
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Foreword
It is indeed a pleasure to write the foreword to this most valuable study on the intergenerational consequences of lifestyle migration among German-speaking immigrants in New Zealand. This is an original contribution to research in a field which has been relatively neglected. German speakers were the second largest immigrant group to settle in New Zealand in the nineteenth century after the British and research has highlighted their contribution to New Zealand society. However, not so much work has been done on German-speaking immigrants in New Zealand over the last few decades, though the impact of contemporary German, Austrian, and Swiss migration has been considerable. In particular, very little has been written on how German immigrants have acclimatized themselves to life in New Zealand, and how the second and third generations feel about the country which their parents and grandparents adopted. Irmengard Wohlfart’s analysis of the multigenerational consequences of permanent immigration from German-speaking Europe, and particularly German language maintenance and shift to English across the generations, nicely complements t
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