The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of Italian‐Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post‐Brexit referendum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Morad ◽  
Francesco Della Puppa ◽  
Devi Sacchetto
Keyword(s):  
Dark Side ◽  
Onward Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Experiences

“Talk in Tamil!” – Does Sri Lankan Tamil onward migration from Europe influence Tamil language maintenance in the UK?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (269) ◽  
pp. 123-149
Author(s):  
Lavanya Sankaran
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Onward Migration ◽  
Migratory Patterns ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This article uses the “communicative repertoire” conceptual framework to investigate the evolving linguistic practices in the Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) diaspora, looking specifically at how changing mobility patterns have had an influence on heritage language use. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken with 42 participants of diverse migration trajectories in London, the study finds that onward migration has important implications for Tamil language maintenance and use in the UK, and for the introduction of European languages into the community. It argues that Tamil practices can only be fully understood if we consider them within the context of participants' communicative repertoires. Further, the definition of Tamil needs to be expanded to include different varieties, registers and styles that have been shaped by onward migration. As the trend of multiple migrations is becoming increasingly common in globalization processes, studying the recent change in SLT migratory patterns is also crucial to gaining insight into the diversities and transnational links that exist within and across diaspora communities respectively.

Onward Migration from Italy to the UK: Reshaped Linguistic Repertoires and the Role of English

2021 ◽  
pp. 255-271
Author(s):  
Francesco Goglia
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Heritage Languages ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Onward Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
British Education

This chapter presents a discussion on the role of English in the linguistic repertoires of the second generation of onward-migrating families from Italy to the UK. Participants reported on their language use, language maintenance, and language attitudes, both in their early life in Italy and in the UK. The second generation maintain Italian with same-age peer friendships and older siblings. They view the language as linguistic capital to enhance their future career prospects in the UK or support a return to Italy. Italian is also maintained in conversations with parents often in the form of code-switching. Parents struggle with English after a long period of residence in Italy and children are not fluent in the heritage languages. English is considered the most important language and, together with a British education to improve their children’s life chances, is the main pull factor for families in the decision to migrate onward. Onward migration allows these families to restart language shift towards English (which was interrupted during the years of stay in Italy) in a parallel way to language shift towards English taking place in their countries of origin.

Risk assessment

1998 ◽  
Vol 173 (6) ◽  
pp. 540-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Professional Misconduct ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Complex Procedure ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Suicidal Patients ◽  
Community Team

Reading about the assessment and management of risk began, in earnest, for me in 1993. Previously, I had assumed that good training in the management of suicidal patients, reasonable clinical skills, a high-quality community team and the rarely utilised option of referring worrying patients to the forensic psychiatrists together represented an adequate basis for practice in an inner-city catchment area. This naïve assumption was challenged by the popular and political reaction to the actions of Christopher Clunis and Ben Silcock in December 1992, both people with a schizophrenic illness known to services whose dangerous behaviour put them on the front page of newspapers in the UK. A groundbreaking textbook demonstrates that other medical specialities have, partly because of the threat of litigation, been more effective in analysing sources of risk and developing strategies to manage risk (Vincent, 1995). Improving quality is a central plank of the latest National Health Service reform (Department of Health, 1998). There is no doubt that the political driver for this is “the dark side of quality” (Vincent, 1997), how to deal with perceived or actual performance failures in health care such as the seminal ‘Bristol case’, in which cardiothoracic surgeons with an unusually high mortality rate in carrying out a complex procedure were found guilty of serious professional misconduct (Smith, 1998).

Place-Identity in boundaryless careers: Narratives of medical students from lower socio-economic class backgrounds

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Emily Róisín Reid
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Boundaryless Careers

Medical schools are working to widen access to students from lower socio-economic backgrounds, particularly through targeted recruitment within under-doctored regions of the UK. Drawing upon recent research, this article explores ways that place- identity theory can be helpful to career professionals, particularly when thinking about the extent to which where individuals are from influences where they (can) go and what they might need to sacrifice to get there. Bounded student narratives expose the 'dark side' of the social mobility agenda and clash with the quasi-colonial 'world is your oyster' rhetoric of the boundaryless career. Implications for practice are discussed.

scholarly journals New Greek migrant (dis)identifications in social media: Evidence from a discourse-centred online ethnographic study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariza Georgalou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Identification Processes ◽  
Migration Experiences ◽  
Greek Migrants

AbstractSince the eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010, thousands of highly educated and skilled Greeks have chosen or have been forced to migrate abroad in pursuit of better career prospects and living standards. This recent migratory wave has been termed ‘new’ Greek migration (Panagiotopoulou et al., 2019). Considering the transformative impact of social media on the lives and experiences of migrants as well as the pivotal role of social media in (dis)identification and identity construction processes, this paper aims at exploring the ways in which new Greek migrants construct their identities in their social media discourse. Based on a synergy between the constructionist approach to identity, discourse studies, and online ethnography, the paper presents and discusses empirical data (social media content and interviews) from five selected new Greek migrants settled in the UK and Germany, who write about and capture their migration experiences on their blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. As shown in the analysis, new Greek migrant identities are hybrid and multifaceted, constructed and negotiated through a gamut of discursive means, including stance-taking, intertextuality, entextualization, and coupling. Having the migrants’ own voice and perspective at the heart of the analysis brings to the forefront significant socio-cultural dimensions of new Greek migration, often downplayed in economic and political analyses of the phenomenon. In this fashion, the potential of social media to heighten awareness of new Greek migrants’ (dis)identification processes is verified.

scholarly journals The Mental Health and Wellbeing of EU Citizens in the UK: A Systematic Review of the Qualitative Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Piotr Teodorowski ◽  
Ruth Woods ◽  
Catriona Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Literature

Moving to a new country impacts on migrants’ mental health and wellbeing. There are over 3.6 million European Union citizens living in the United Kingdom. We conducted a systematic review of the qualitative literature to explore what is known about their mental health and wellbeing at the post-migration stage in pre-Brexit period. We searched five databases from 1st January 2009 to 19th February 2019; Web of Science, MEDLINE, CINAHL, SocIndex and Scopus for studies. Ten papers reporting nine studies were included in this review. Two themes were constructed; a narrative of adjustment and of employment realities. The former focuses on the process of settling in and the role of social connectedness. The latter concerns employment realities with included studies exploring the financial position and employment experiences of migrants. Findings indicate that we still know relatively little about the range of post-migration experiences among EU citizens and their implications for mental health

The dark side of the UK National DNA Database

The Lancet ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 362 (9386) ◽  
pp. 834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vince L Pascali ◽  
Giampietro Lago ◽  
Marina Dobosz
Keyword(s):  
Dark Side ◽  
Dna Database ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Fan fiction in the library

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludi Price ◽  
Lyn Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Science Students ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Systematic Selection ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

Although several notable collections of fan fiction exist in libraries, such as the Sandy Hereld Fanzine Collection at Texas A&M University (http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/149935) and the digital fanzine archives at the University of Iowa (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/resources/fandomresources/), not much attention is given to the systematic selection, acquisition, indexing, preservation, and sharing of fan works in the UK, considering the popularity of fandom, the volume of creative work that exists, and the rate at which new texts are produced. Here we present the results of an investigation into the extent to which UK libraries collect and manage fan fiction, and our attempts to ascertain the reasons underlying collection policy in local, public, special, academic, and national institutions. Our report is based on a review of recent literature, an analysis of the collection policies of a selection of UK libraries, and a brief survey of the views of Library & Information Science students. The empirical work was carried out in spring 2016. Results show that there is a little-known and less-understood dark side to fan fiction, in regard to how it is understood and valued in the library sector, which feeds a widening gap in our cultural heritage.

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