The Complexity of Belonging: Theoretical Perspectives
This chapter introduces belonging, presenting concepts and theories that guide the research topic, and enables the development of the research framework to collect, process, and assess data. It lays out the main themes, including the family and migration,
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Belonging in Brixton
Audrey Allwood
Belonging in Brixton An Ethnography of Migrant West Indian Elders in Brixton, London
Audrey Allwood Department of Anthropology Goldsmiths University of London London, UK
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Brixton: Come in Love
Preface
My Motivation for Writing This Book The decision to write this brook rose out of a personal and academic interest on the experiences of migrants from the West Indies, residing in Britain. My aim in this book is to provide information about an underresearched part of that community, namely the elderly people who migrated in the ‘Windrush’1 era of migration, and to add to the scholarly body of knowledge on this migrant group. In particular, to capture and document the details of the legacy of their migration, but rather than lay emphasis on the legacy of the West Indian migration on British culture and society, this gaze is focused on the opposite. Consequently, the interest here is concerned with the impact of migration on the people who came from the West Indies and remained in Britain, living into the elderly stage of the life course. To some degree, the West Indian community still face discrimination and exclusion and people continue to adjust within Britain, so it is within the adjustment process that this book explores how the elderly people negotiate their belonging, through the examination of everyday life experiences. It also arises from the sentiment,
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