Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- PART 1. Historical and contemporary perspectives on migration -- Chapter 2. The historical construction of migration -- Chapter 3. Contemporary discourses on migrant: the role of the media -- PART 2. Migrants, culture and identity -- Chapter 4. Migration and its cultural dynamic capabilities -- Chapter 5. Embodying the spirit of globalisation -- Chapter 6. Citizenship, hybridity, embeddedness and dual embeddedness -- Chapter 7. Inter-migrant and inter-community relations -- PART 3. Migrants and economic structures -- Chapter 8. The employment situation of migrant workers and their experience of work life pressures -- Chapter 9. Women's post-migration narratives of entrepreneurial becoming -- Chapter 10. Migrants as creative economic forces and contributions to the UK local economy -- PART 4. Creative research methodologies -- Chapter 11. Resilience network orentations as a new approach in reframing migrants' employment underperformance and economic dependency rhetoric: new directions for migration studies -- Chapter 12. Metaphors in migration research: beyond the obvious -- Chapter 13. Narrative -- Chapter 14. Migrant contributions to Australian society -- Chapter 15. A humble servant for queen and equality -- Chapter 16. The tragic death of Altab Ali and the beginning of confrontation against racism and fascism -- Chapter 17. Conclusion.

Migration Practice as Creative Practice: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Migration presents an in-depth evaluation of migrants' contributions to modern socio-economic structures. Leading with a discussion of the historical construction of migration and what it signifies in the modern globalised economies, an interdisciplinary range of contributors examine the interaction of migrants with new cultures, migrants' embeddedness into new environments and what that signifies for community relations. The book discusses the creative energies that migrants bring to the private and public spheres. Migration Practice as Creative Practice examines how migrants use their social lives, lived experiences, the process of identity formation and histories to inject positive 'newness' into host cultural and economic architectures. The book calls for more creative ways of researching migrant lived experiences and brings to life the different ways of approaching migrant research for scholars today.

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