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Hard Labour : the Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant 'Volunteer' Workers.

Von: McDowell, LindaMaterialtyp: TextTextSprache: EnglischVerlag: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2005Copyright-Datum: ©2005Auflage: 1st edBeschreibung: 1 online resource (237 pages)Inhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Computermedien Datenträgertyp: Online ResourceISBN: 9781134057146Schlagwörter: Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century | World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Great Britain | Foreign workers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Women refugees -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Women refugees -- Latvia -- History -- 20th century | Latvians -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Fernzugriff | Andere physische Formen: Print version: : Hard Labour: the Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant 'Volunteer' WorkersOnline-Ressourcen: Volltext
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Intro -- HARD LABOUR THE FORGOTTEN VOICES OF LATVIAN MIGRANT 'VOLUNTEER' WORKERS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Looking Back to the 1940s and 1950s -- Chapter 2 Thinking Through Gender: Theorising Migration, Memory and Identity -- Chapter 3 Disciplining Bodies: Exile and Involuntary Labour -- Chapter 4 Life in the Camps: From Foreign Workers to Displaced Persons -- Chapter 5 Becoming EVWs: From Displaced Persons to Economic Migrants -- Chapter 6 Survival Strategies: Women's Dual Roles in Post-War Britain -- Chapter 7 Place, Locality and Gendered Local Cultures -- Chapter 8 Yearning for 'Home': Narratives of Belonging and Imagined Community -- Chapter 9 Conclusions: Memory, Identity and Translation -- Bibliography -- Index.
Zusammenfassung: This book explores the forgotten voices of a group of young women who left Latvia in 1944, telling the story of their flight from the advancing Soviet Army to their refuge in Britain.

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Intro -- HARD LABOUR THE FORGOTTEN VOICES OF LATVIAN MIGRANT 'VOLUNTEER' WORKERS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Looking Back to the 1940s and 1950s -- Chapter 2 Thinking Through Gender: Theorising Migration, Memory and Identity -- Chapter 3 Disciplining Bodies: Exile and Involuntary Labour -- Chapter 4 Life in the Camps: From Foreign Workers to Displaced Persons -- Chapter 5 Becoming EVWs: From Displaced Persons to Economic Migrants -- Chapter 6 Survival Strategies: Women's Dual Roles in Post-War Britain -- Chapter 7 Place, Locality and Gendered Local Cultures -- Chapter 8 Yearning for 'Home': Narratives of Belonging and Imagined Community -- Chapter 9 Conclusions: Memory, Identity and Translation -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book explores the forgotten voices of a group of young women who left Latvia in 1944, telling the story of their flight from the advancing Soviet Army to their refuge in Britain.

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