ABSTRACT
Introduction: Themes and Contexts The overarching aim of this book is to uncover and explore a series of everyday experiences of migration, a phenomenon which can be both a monumental upheaval and an ordinary activity. Inspired early on by the absorbing memoirs of Eva Hoffman’s journey from post-war Poland to Canada, this research focuses on the often invisible aspects of migration and post-migration – feelings, experiences and perceptions – using the Polish, Italian and Greek-Cypriot migrant populations in Leicester as illustrative case-studies.1 Taking the four distinctive but overlapping themes of migration, national identity, transnational connections and community life, this book draws together a mosaic of testimonies orientated around experiences and memories of nation and migration.
