Cangbai Wang is Reader in Chinese Studies at the University of Westminster, London, UK. He is the author of Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas: Migration Histories and the Cultural Heritage of the Homeland (2021, Routledge).Terry Lamb is Professor of Languages and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy at the University of Westminster, London, UK. His most recent book is Insights into Language Education Policies (ed. 2020, Peter Lang, with M. Jiménez Raya and B. Manzano Vázquez).

• FiguresContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordChapter 1. Cangbai Wang and Terry Lamb: Introduction: Bridging the Gap between Migration, Cities and Language: An Interdisciplinary PerspectivePart 1: 'Metrolingual Space': Cultural Translation, Language Ideologies and Diasporic Identities in a Global City Chapter 2. Giulia Pepe: Negotiating New Migratory Identities through Multilingual Practices: The Case of Post-Crisis Italian Migrants in LondonChapter 3. Saskia Huc-Hepher and Fabrice Lyczba: 'Sorry, I’m French': Frenchness as Uneasy Resource in the Construction of Home, Identity and Belonging among French Students in LondonChapter 4. Umit Cetin and Celia Jenkins: Alevi Kurds in the UK: Paving the Way Towards Recognition of a New Ethno-Religious IdentityPart 2: 'Performative Space': Visualising, Sounding and Acting Identities in a Transnational FieldChapter 5. Benedetta Morsiani: Performing Black Beauty: The Congolese Community in LondonChapter 6. Denise Kwan: Articulating the Subjectivities of British Chinese Women through Art and Material ObjectsChapter 7. Cangbai Wang: Negotiating Diasporic Identities in Glocal Heritage Discourses: The Case of the Chinese New Year Celebration in LondonChapter 8. Julie Marsh: Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its CongregationPart 3: 'Heritagisation Space': Collecting, Remembering and Transmitting the Past for a Shared Future Chapter 9. Susan L.T. Ashley: Spaces of Heritagisation: The UK Indian Communities and Memorials of WarChapter 10. Alison Barnes: Tracing the Graphic Heritage of Hackney’s Migrant Communities through FoodChapter 11. Xiao Ma: Contesting Everyday (Food) Heritage in London's ChinatownChapter 12. Ailsa Peate and Lucia Brandi: A Museum for Me: Place and Memory Making with Mujer DiásporaIndex

This superb book showcases how it is the creative agency of migrants from around the world that makes the vibrant, dynamic and hugely energetic – call it ‘trans-ethnic’ – urban landscape that is the city of London. As such, the book provides a superb antidote to today’s climate of heightened anti-migrant sentiment and exclusionary cultural nationalism. A must-read for all cosmopolitans!