Figuring home

The role of commodities in the transnational experience

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12701904
AutoresChristine Penman (0000-0001-5342-7508, Edinburgh Napier University, autor de correspondencia), Maktoba Omar (0000-0001-8446-8425, Edinburgh Napier University)
Año2011
Volumen11
Número4
Páginas338-350
Fecha de publicación2011-11-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-8477 • E-ISSN: 1747-759X
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14708477.2011.613477
OpenAlexW1977352652
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas22

This article proposes to investigate the role played by material goods in the transnational experience. Previous research has shown that the movement of people across the world comes with a corollary of cultural flows which find their expression in multiple ways. This article looks more specifically at the kind of commodities that international students bring from home when living in the UK. Informed by interdisciplinary research, it reports on a quantitative study with some qualitative elements investigating the motivation for bringing specific goods, and the nature of those goods. It also looks at the issue of authenticity of provision for the sample by interrogating the importance of the locating process

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