Anne Kershen: 3 books
Strangers, Aliens and Asians
Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields 1666-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Exploring the dynamics that drive the processes of immigrant settlement and assimilation, this fascinating book looks at whether these are solely the outcome of the temporal setting, cultural background, and the contemporaneous socio-economic and political conditions, or whether there are factors...
Uniting the Tailors
Trade Unionism amoungst the Tailors of London and Leeds 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This book is not only about the tailoring industry and its trade unions; it is about the experience of eastern European immigrants in a trade as old as the Bible and yet as new as the electric sewing machine; it is about the role of women in a new industry and about the impact of socio-economic change...
London the Promised Land Revisited
The Changing Face of the London Migrant Landscape in the Early 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?, which charted and investigated the successes and failures of the migrant experience in London over a period of three hundred years, this book re-examines the migrant landscape in London. While remaining a beacon for immigrants, the...