Dr. Michael Derham received his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, Institute of Latin American Studies. He is currently Senior Lecturer Spanish and Latin American Studies at Northumbria University and External Examiner (Spanish) Regent’s University, London.
2015 1-4955-0345-3 This fascinating and valuable multidisciplinary study is the first monograph, written in English, that highlights immigrant struggles in Venezuela. It examines the problems immigrants faced achieving integration in their host society; it identifies their cultural adaptation skills and brings a well-researched discussion of the complexities related to the development of nationalism and national identity under both dictatorship and democratic rule in Venezuela.