Les Back on Migrants

Résumé du livre

About this Podcast, Sociologists Les Back and Shamser Sinha spent a decade following 30 migrants in London, a study that forms the narrative in their new book, Migrant City. The book offers an insight into life in contemporary London from the the perspective of 30 adult migrants. "In the end," Back tells interviewer David Edmonds, "Shamser Sinha and I learned so much about not only the experience of migration, but about London as a space and a place that is made through migration. So this is not really just a migrants' story; it's the story of London but told through and eyes, ears, and attentiveness of 30 adult migrants from all corners of the world."This collaborative longitudinal ethnography in, and of, London was accompanied by a conscious effort not just to "mine" the 30 migrants of their personal experiences and data; the sociologists were "doing research alongside people, instead of just in front of them and on them."