Beaglehole ann (15 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An examination on the accomodations and adjustments made by the Jewish people living in New Zealand, isolated as they are from larger centres of Jewish life. This study is largely based on 93 interviews conducted in the 1990s with current or ex-New Zealand Jews of widely differing backgrounds. Cove a little worn. 146 pages.…

Softcover. Zustand: Good.

Ex-library, super octavo softcover (VG-): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 200 pages. writing on inside coverNazi persecution, oppression behind the Iron Curtain, the struggle of strange rs in a strange land. This sombre history haunts the adults in Ann Beaglehole's novel Replacement Girl while their children expand into the bright, wide open la ndscape of their adopted country.Set in fifties to seventies Wellington, Replace ment Girl vividly brings the immigrant experience to life. The story moves back and forwards in time and between New Zealand and Budapest, as Eva grows up in a family struggling with the after-effects of earlier losses and adjustment to a n ew culture. Eva and her group of four friends, all immigrant children and 'diffe rent', have to make their own adjustments and choices to survive and thrive in 1 950s Wellington. They just want to leave the parents' past behind and live the c arefree life of their schoolmates.With sensitivity and humour, Ann Beaglehole ta kes the reader inside the immigrant experience so that we see mid-century New Ze aland through their eyes. Replacement Girl explores the tensions between generat ions and cultures. It is a story of love, relationships and cross-cultural marri age.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 209 pages. V slight crinkling to spine head and front cover near spine - clean, tight interior.Focuses on the lives of the children of wartime immigrants, whose perceptions an d experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their p arents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them we re painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversit y. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very di fferent ideals and expectations of their parents. Based on a wide range of inter views as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is an account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and the 1960s.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 263 pages. Insccription on ffep.Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland. Typically, they are escaping war and pers ecution because of their ethnicity, their religion or their political beliefs. S ince 1840, New Zealand has given refuge to thousands of people from Europe, Sout h America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Refuge New Zealand examines New Zea land's response to refugees and asylum seekers in an historical context. Which g roups and categories have been chosen, and why? Who has been kept out and why? H ow has public policy governing refugee immigration changed over time? Aspects of New Zealand's response to refugees and asylum seekers considered in the book in clude: the careful selection of refugee settlers to ensure they will fit in; the preference for people like us and the exclusion of so-called race aliens; the d esire for children, especially orphans; responses to the increasing diversity of refugee intakes; the balance between humanitarian, economic and political consi derations; and the refugee-like situation of Maori. As the book also shows, refu gees and asylum seekers from overseas have not been the country's only refugees. War, land confiscations and European settlement had made refugees of Maori in t he nineteenth and early twentieth century, with displacement and land loss contr ibuting to subsequent Maori social and economic deprivation. Editorial Reviews About the Author Ann Beaglehole was born in Hungary and came to New Zealand wit h her parents in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union. Her publications include A Small Price to Pay and Facing the Past, about refugees f rom Nazism settling in New Zealand. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 209 pages. tidy copyFocuses on the lives of the children of wartime immigrants, whose perceptions an d experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their p arents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them we re painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversit y. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very di fferent ideals and expectations of their parents. Based on a wide range of inter views as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is an account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and the 1960s.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. ix, 318 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 172 pages. Cover slightly tanned/ scuffed, Text lightly tanned.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland. Typically, they are escaping war and persecution because of their ethnicity, their religion or their political beliefs. Since 1840, New Zealand has given refuge to thousands of people from Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Refuge New Zealand examines New Zealands response to refugees and asylum seekers in an historical context. Which groups and categories have been chosen, and why Who has been kept out and why How has public policy governing refugee immigration changed over time Aspects of New Zealands response to refugees and asylum seekers considered in the book include: the careful selection of refugee settlers to ensure they will 'fit in'; the preference for people like us and the exclusion of so-called 'race aliens'; the desire for children, especially orphans; responses to the increasing diversity of refugee intakes; the balance between humanitarian, economic and political considerations; and the refugee-like situation of Maori. As the book also shows, refugees and asylum seekers from overseas have not been the countrys only refugees.War, land confiscations and European settlement had made refugees of Maori in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, with displacement and land loss contributing to subsequent Maori social and economic deprivation.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAnn Beaglehole was born in Hungary and came to New Zealand with her parents in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union. Her publications include A Small Price to Pay and Facing the Past (Allen and Un.

Paperback. Signed Copy. Good.

bundle. Zustand: New.