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Nationality, Ethnicity, Identity and Displacement: Cultural Strategies to Find Ways of Feeling ‘at Home’

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The previous chapter on cultural strategies and community economic development included some discussion of tourism, with a focus on the varying implications for the local host communities. This chapter shifts to focus upon those who travel, and more specifically upon those who travel in response to wider pressures, rather than predominantly as a matter of individual preference. Leaving the homeland raises potential questions about culture, community and identity and processes of change, both for those who leave and for their children, second generation migrants, raised in another place. How might cultural strategies for community development address the issues faced by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, those who have left home, whether as a result of wider economic, social or political pressures? And how might such strategies take account of diversities within as well as between these communities as these develop and change over time including differences relating to gender, age, class and political perspective?

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    Marjorie Mayo (Reader in Community Development)

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Mayo, M. (2000). Nationality, Ethnicity, Identity and Displacement: Cultural Strategies to Find Ways of Feeling ‘at Home’. In: Cultures, Communities, Identities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977828_7

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