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Belonging in Brixton

An Ethnography of Migrant West Indian Elders in Brixton, London

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Authors:
  1. Audrey Allwood

    1. Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London, London, UK

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  • Examines how relations are maintained and connections lost during long-term transnational migration

  • Studies the impact of migration on individuals and the social networks

  • Offers a close ethnography, informed by oral history, interviews, and genealogy, of a Caribbean migrant community

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Audrey Allwood
    Pages 1-35

  3. The Complexity of Belonging: Theoretical Perspectives

    • Audrey Allwood
    Pages 37-73

  4. Elderhood and Black Sheltered Housing

    • Audrey Allwood
    Pages 75-108

  5. The Experience of Migration: Planting Roots

    • Audrey Allwood
    Pages 109-142

  6. The Elder’s Children: Family Relations and Gender Differences

    • Audrey Allwood
    Pages 143-180

  7. Socialisation: ‘Small Garden, Bitter Weed’

    • Audrey Allwood
    Pages 181-224

  8. Elder’s Engagement with State Support Services

    • Audrey Allwood
    Pages 225-261

  9. Conclusion

    • Audrey Allwood
    Pages 263-275

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 277-321
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About this book

This volume provides a unique perspective on elderly working-class West Indian migrants in the UK, particularly examining how they negotiate their sense of belonging. Utilizing the life span gaze and including elements of oral history and narrative, this ethnography provides rich insight into the ordinary lives, migratory circumstances, social networks, and interactions with the state as residents in a sheltered housing scheme in Brixton, London. The author further compiles a variety of genealogy charts, providing a uniquely vivid scholarly analysis of the Caribbean migrant experience both in a “place” and through space and time. Ultimately, this work contemplates how communities face change whilst at once developing a local symbolic cultural site, navigating adaptation to new economic and social environments.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London, London, UK

    Audrey Allwood

About the author

Audrey Allwood is Visiting Research Fellow in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is undertaking postdoctoral research in Caribbean migrants and successive generations, uncovering notions of belonging and well-being in an era with vast, fast-paced social change.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Belonging in Brixton

  • Book Subtitle: An Ethnography of Migrant West Indian Elders in Brixton, London

  • Authors: Audrey Allwood

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54598-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54597-0Published: 20 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54600-7Published: 20 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54598-7Published: 19 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 321

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Migration, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

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