International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories: Volume III: Migration and Identity

by Rina Benmayor, Andor Skotnes

Overview

Edited by an international group of leading scholars in oral history, and featuring contributions from the world's preeminent oral historians, the International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories aims to increase our understanding of the recent past and the changing present through autobiographical testimony, in the form of written biography, oral history, and life story interviews. Each volume focuses on a single theme: Volume III, Migration and Identity, concerns the shaping of identity, and reveals how migration acts as a crucible for individual social development and wider social change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198202509
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/23/1995
Series:	International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.93(d)
Lexile:	1290L (what's this?)

About the Author

Hunter College, New York

Russell Sage College

Editorial Reviews

"Migration and Identity offers a fascinating and wide-ranging selection of migrants' stories and of prisms for interpreting them....[A]n excellent volume, allowing readers to learn a great deal about the identities of contemporary migrants as well as the theoretical prisms scholars and migrants themselves use to interrogate those identities."—Oral History Review

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