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The British in South Africa - Romanian Economic Migrants in London

Laurie Taylor explores migration in contrasting contexts, from Romanian migrant workers in Britain to white migrants in South Africa.

Migration: the complexities of transnational movement, identity and belonging. Laurie Taylor explores migration in contrasting contexts. He talks to Daniel Briggs, Professor of Criminology at the Universidad Europea, Madrid, about his study of Romanian economic migrants in Britain. Leaving behind the debt and corruption of their home in life in the hope of finding something better, what kinds of lives do they end up living in the UK? Also, Daniel Conway, Lecturer in Politics & International Studies at the Open University, discusses his research into the lives, histories and identities of white British-born immigrants in South Africa, twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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Daniel Briggs

Professor in Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Europea

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Culture and immigration in context: An ethnography of Romanian migrant workers in London
Daniel Briggs, Dorina Dobre (Authors)
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot UK
ISBN-10: 1137380608
ISBN-13: 978-1137380609

Daniel Conway

Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, Open University

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Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa
Daniel Conway, Pauline Leonard
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10: 023034657X
ISBN-13: 978-0230346574

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