{"product_id":"our-city-migrants-and-the-making-of-modern-birmingham","title":"Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a positive story of integration and defends the principles of equality and diversity, highlighting the variety of migrant experience and offering an antidote to the fear-mongering of the tabloid press. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 07 March 2019\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Unbound\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndispensable . . . Speaks of hope and courage . . . Observer . . . An ode to openness, offering a refreshing alternative to those accounts that treat migrants as faceless statistics . . . David Lammy MP . . . A highly informed and eloquent account of life in a modern British city during a period of globalisation, austerity, and mass migration . . . Patrick Cockburn, Independent . . . Race and migration are the most prominent and divisive issues in British politics today . . . As Brexit and the dangers of Islamist extremism are being used to reassert a closed British identity, these stories – of fifty migrants, first and second generations; men and women; from thirteen different countries, from Ireland to India, Pakistan to Poland, the Caribbean to Somalia – highlight the variety of migrant experience and offer an antidote to the fear-mongering of the tabloid press . . . This positive story of integration is all too rarely told, and it offers a firm defence of the principles of equality and increased diversity . . . Our City shows why mixed, open societies are the way forward for twenty-first-century cities, and how migrants help modern Britain not only survive but prosper .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 610g                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 161 x 242 x 30 (mm)                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781783527168                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jon Bloomfield","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44105712828666,"sku":"9781783527168","price":13.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1ff3b58f595c8329ce9d6b516f69bb26.jpg?v=1624842420","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/our-city-migrants-and-the-making-of-modern-birmingham","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}