Isbn: 9780044421757 - facing the past [paperback] (2 Ergebnisse)

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: Good. 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.…