BELONGING IN EUROPE by Caroline Bressey (Editor), Hakim Adi (Editor) ( 9780415488709 )

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BELONGING IN EUROPE
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND WORK

By:

Caroline Bressey (Editor), Hakim Adi (Editor)

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0415488702

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9780415488709

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 November, 2009

Pages:

176

Description:

Although often assumed to have begun with post-war immigration, the black presence in Europe in fact pre-dates the forced migrations of trans-Atlantic slavery. This book seeks to not only mark these early histories, but to examine the lives of those who made their lives in Europe before 1945.

Synopsis:

This publication does not just mark the presence of black people in Europe, but brings research to a new stage by making connections across Europe through the experience of work and labour. The working experience for black peoples in Europe was not just confined to ports and large urban areas - often the place black people are located in the imagination of the European map both today and historically. Work took place in small towns, villages and on country estates. Until the 1800s enslaved Africans would have worked alongside free blacks and their white peers. How were these labour relations realised be it on a country estate or a town house? How did this experience translate into the labour movements of the twentieth century? These are some of the questions the essays in this collection address, contributing to new understandings of European life both historically and today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities.

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