Global Migrants, Local Culture

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Migration and Cultural Change

   • Laura Tabili

   Pages 1-12

3. Aal Tegither, Like the Folks O’Sheels: Colonizers, Invaders, Settlers and Sojourners in the Making of an Industrial Town

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   Pages 13-34

4. A Stable and Homogeneous Population? Overseas Migrants in South Shields, 1841–1901

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   Pages 35-62

5. Migrants’ Networks and Local People

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   Pages 63-103

6. Moving, Staying, Coming, Going: Migrants and Remigrants in Provincial Britain

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   Pages 104-123

7. Gentlemen of the Highest Character: Negotiating Inclusion with the People of South Shields

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   Pages 124-151

8. His Wife Must Surely Know: Women and Migrants’ Integration

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   Pages 152-172

9. Men of the World: Casualties of Empire Building

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   Pages 173-199

10. I Give My Missus the 28 Shillings: Everyday Forms of Accommodation

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    Pages 200-235

11. Conclusion: Global Migrants in Provincial England

    • Laura Tabili

    Pages 236-241

12. Back Matter

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Employing the first analysis of the entire population of any British town, this book examines how overseas migrants affected society and culture in South Shields near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Resituating Britain within global processes of migration and cultural change, it recasts British society pre-1940 as culturally and racially dynamic and diverse.

• cultural change
• England
• integration
• migration

'This book provides a valuable addition to the growing literature on migration to the UK during the height of British power.'

- A.M. Wainwright, The University of Akron

'The book calls for a new scholarly perspective with regard to migrants and reveals blank spots within the existing research on migration to Great Britain.' - H-Soz-u-Kult

• University of Arizona, USA

  Laura Tabili

LAURA TABILI Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Arizona, USA, and author of We Ask for British Justice: Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain. Her articles explore how European global expansion affected class, labour migration, interracial and exogamous marriages and the racialisation of masculinity.

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