Val Colic-Peisker is an associate professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is the coauthor of The Age of Post-Rationality: Limits of Economic Reasoning in the Twenty-First Century and the author of Split Lives: Croatian Australian Stories.

“Recommended.”--Choice"Well informed about the current research agenda and theoretical debates of immigration studies ... engagingly written, and with proposed arguments supported by extensive citations from interviewees, the book is an evident accomplishment."--American Historical Review "An outstanding study. . . . Written with (com)passion and commitment, and profound understanding of many complex and interrelated migration processes and issues."--Labour/Le Travail "Val Colic-Peisker has done much to illuminate this important element in Australian society and to question some long-held beliefs about the maintenance of cultures in diasporic communities. Her comparisons with the Croatian elements in American society are of considerable interest. Those who seek to understand the human processes arising from global movement and resettlement should welcome this important study."--James Jupp, former Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Australian National University "A comprehensive and vibrant account of Croatian migration to Australia, which is as attendant to conceptual detail as it is heartfelt. Readers are treated to an erudite discussion of key concepts in migration studies that are embedded in rich ethnographic accounts of lived experience. The result is an important critique of ethnicity and a reevaluation of the place of class analysis in the migration process."--Loretta Baldassar, author of Visits Home: Migration Experiences Between Italy and Australia