Employing the first analysis of the entire population of any British town, this book examines how overseas migrants affected society and culture in South Shields near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Resituating Britain within global processes of migration and cultural change, it recasts British society pre-1940 as culturally and racially dynamic and diverse.

'This book provides a valuable addition to the growing literature on migration to the UK during the height of British power.'

• A.M. Wainwright, The University of Akron

'The book calls for a new scholarly perspective with regard to migrants and reveals blank spots within the existing research on migration to Great Britain.' - H-Soz-u-Kult

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LAURA TABILI Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Arizona, USA, and author of We Ask for British Justice: Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain . Her articles explore how European global expansion affected class, labour migration, interracial and exogamous marriages and the racialisation of masculinity.

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Contents List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Migration & Cultural Change 'Aal Tegither, Like the Folks O'Sheels': Colonizers, Invaders, Settlers and Sojourners in the Making of an Industrial Town A Stable and Homogeneous Population? Overseas Migrants in South Shields, 1841-1901 Migrants' Networks & Local People Moving, Staying, Coming, Going: Migrants & Remigrants in Provincial Britain Gentlemen of the Highest Character: Negotiating Inclusion with the People of South Shields His Wife Must Surely Know: Women & Migrants' Integration Men of the World: Casualties of Empirebuilding I Give my Missus the Twenty-eight Shillings: Everyday Forms of Accommodation Conclusion: Global Migrants in Provincial England Appendix: Was the Referee Process Corrupt? Notes Index