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• Lovers and Strangers

  

  Irish, bengalis, west indians, poles, maltese, punjabis and cypriots battled to fit into an often shocked britain and, to their own surprise, found themselves making permanent homesvery good condition with slight bumping to cornersas britain picked itself up again in the s migrants set about changing life in their own image, through music, clothing, food, religion, but also fighting racism and casual and not so casual violencesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plungelovers and strangers is an extremely important book, one that is full of enjoyable surprises, giving a voice to a generation who had to deal with the reality of life surrounded by 'white strangers' in their new countrydrawing on an amazing array of unusual and surprising sources, clair wills' wonderful new book brings to life the incredible diversity and strangeness of the migrant experienceshe introduces us to lovers, scroungers, dancers, homeowners, teachers, drinkers, carers and many more to show the opportunities and excitement as much as the humiliation and poverty that could be part of the new arrivals' experiencemost assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed - and transformed the countryoxfam bookshop ealing the battered and exhausted britain of was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new nhs work

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