| Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other:  Oefrom-Heresâ And  Oecome-Heresâ In Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia Contributor(s): Laforcade, Geoffroy De (Editor), Laws, Page R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443826952 ISBN-13: 9781443826952 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 304.8 |
| LCCN: 2011431040 |
| Physical Information: 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No other issue in our times of globalization has aroused such passionate debate as the increasingly complex transborder movements of people of all ethnicities, with the self-perceived from-heres often struggling to maintain the illusion of separateness from intruding come-heres. The paradigm of transculturality offers prospects to rethink, demystify and represent cultural unity and difference, assimilation and alterity, in a manner that acknowledges the fissures and the fictions in traditional cultural dichotomies such as the melodramatically instrumentalized national vs. foreign. The interdisciplinary essays compiled in Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other focus on the ways in which new diasporic and migrational patterns arouse ill will and conflict, but also negotiation and transcultural impulses, resulting in transformed meso-structures in media, schooling, and business. Investigating regional immigrant groups in the states of Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the discourses and images in public media, films, literature, and cultural events, the studies both document the contest for geographical, work, and community space and place it in larger theoretical and specific historical contexts. Arising from an international project undertaken by senior and junior scholars from the fields of cultural studies, history, and sociology at Norfolk State University in Virginia and University of Siegen in Germany, these essays suggest that cultural citizenship can embody dynamic expressions of belonging and strategies of empowerment which shape political and economic communities, engendering in the process innovative forms of constantly negotiated, hybrid identity and transmigratory affiliation. |
