Migration, Class and Transnational Identities: Croations in Australia and America

by Val Colic-Peisker

Val Colic-Peisker harnesses concepts and theories from sociology, anthropology, and political science to compare the vastly different experiences of two Croatian immigrant cohorts in the city of Perth, Western Australia. The populations explored represent an earlier group of working-class migrants arriving from communist Yugoslavia from the 1950s to 1970s and a later group of urban professionals arriving in the 1980s and 1990s as 'independent'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252033604
• ISBN13: 9780252033605
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"