The United Kingdom has been the main destination country for Latvian migrants since the 2000s, with some estimates suggesting that as many as 100,000 Latvians are currently living there. The book Latvians There: Mobility and Rootedness of Latvian Emigrants in the United Kingdom at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2023) by Mārtiņš Kaprāns focuses on this emerging migrant community. The book provides a rich analysis and an in-depth insight into the life and experience of the largest Latvian diaspora living in one country in the world at the moment. Kaprāns’s monograph is undoubtedly of interest to migration scholars. However, the book will also appeal to a wider readership, far beyond the traditional audience of social sciences and humanities. The book is really about Latvians there, i.e. in Great Brit[1]ain, introducing the reader not only to Latvian migrants in the respective destination country, but also to the economic geography, history, social stratification of British society, and more specifically England, the relations between migrants and locals, the mutual relations of different groups of migrants, and contextualising everything in the observations and insights of other migration scholars.
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