Asians In Britain
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Writing The City In British Asian Diasporas
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Author : Sean McLoughlin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Writing The City In British Asian Diasporas written by Sean McLoughlin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Political Science categories.
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which the South Asian diaspora can be re-conceptualised. Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas takes a fresh look at such matters and will have multi-disciplinary resonance worldwide. The meaning and importance of local, multi-local and trans-local dynamics is explored through a devolved and regionally-accented comparison of five British Asian cities: Bradford, the East End of London, Manchester, Leicester and Birmingham. Analysing the ‘writing’ of these differently configured cities since the 1960s, its main focus is the significant discrepancies in representation between differently-positioned texts reflecting both dominant institutional discourses and everyday lived experiences of a locality. Part I offers a comprehensive, yet still highly contested, reading of each city’s archives. Part II examines how the arts and humanities fields of History, Religion, Gender and Literary/Cultural Studies have all written British Asian diasporas, and how their perspectives might complement the better-established agendas of the social sciences. Providing an innovative analysis of South Asian communities and their multi-local identities in Britain today, this interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian Studies, Migration, Ethnic and Diaspora Studies, as well as Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography.
A Postcolonial People
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Author : Nasreen Ali
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2006
A Postcolonial People written by Nasreen Ali and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This is a critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain. The book combines analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The contributors provide insights & information on the Asian British experience in its socio-economic & cultural dimensions.
Asians In Britain
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Author : Rozina Visram
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2002-04-20
Asians In Britain written by Rozina Visram and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-20 with History categories.
In 1616 an East Indian was christened with the name of Peter at St. Dionis Backchurch in London. This history explores the history of Indian communities in Britain since that first recorded instance. From the original immigrants to the large waves of the 1950s, the author looks at patterns of migration, Indian views on their adopted society, treatment of immigrant communities by government and the dominant society, and the political activities of Indians for acceptance in Britain and the end of colonial rule in India. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A South Asian History Of Britain
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Author : Michael H. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2007-06-30
A South Asian History Of Britain written by Michael H. Fisher and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-30 with History categories.
People from India have been coming to Britain - risking their lives in voyages across the 'Kala Pani' (Black waters) - since the beginning of the seventeenth century. Their story has both grand historical sweep and the intimate drama of individual lives. They came as sailors, servants, wives, merchants, ambassadors and scholars, sometimes for betterment or profit, sometimes for adventure, and sometimes for justice. Occasionally, they became famous, like the Bengali Muslim calling himself 'John Morgan', a renowned animal trainer, or Sake Dean Mahomed (1759-1851), 'shampooing surgeon' to the Royal Family. Often they remained anonymous. After the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857, the South Asian presence in Britain, more visible than before, was also more sharply defined. 'Brown Victorians', now to be found in the docks and factories, universities and theatres, law courts and hospitals - and eventually Parliament - played an increasingly important role in British life. Through two world wars and the independence of India (and Pakistan), their importance grew further. From the 1950s, increased immigration swelled the numbers of South Asians in Britain, who experienced both racism and economic hardship as they strove to express their entrepreneurial spirit and assert their religious identity. More recently still, growing radicalism among British-Asian youth has led to new interest in the South-Asian community, its spirit, heritage and achievements. The narrative is chronologically structured, beginning in 1600 and coming up to the present day. After an introduction outlining the major themes and setting them in context, eight chapters examine key periods in detail: 1) 'Earliest Asian Visitors and Settlers during the Pre-colonial Period, c. 1600-1750s', 2) 'Asian Arrivals during Early Colonialism, 1750s-1790s', 3) 'Widening and Deepening of the South Asian Presence in Britain, 1790s-1830s', 4) 'South Asian Settlers and Transient Networks and Communities in Britain, 1830s-1857' (all Michael Fisher), 5) 'Brown Victorians, 1857-1901', 6) 'From Empire to Decolonisation, 1901-1947' (Shompa Lahiri), 7) 'Migrating to the Mother Country: South Asian Settlement and the Post-war boom 1947-80' and 8) 'Riding the storm of Thatcherism and Re-inventing Lives and Aspirations' (Shinder Thandi).
Ugandan Asians In Great Britain
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Author : William G. Kuepper
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-11-16
Ugandan Asians In Great Britain written by William G. Kuepper and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-16 with Social Science categories.
Ugandan Asians in Great Britain (1975) examines the impact of the 1972 immigration of 28,000 Asians expelled from Uganda, looking at the impact on both the immigrants themselves and the British host community. It is an attempt to understand some of the dynamics of forced migrant transition from one society and culture to another. The study was largely carried out in Wandsworth and Slough and shows how these communities – not without social problems before this influx of immigrants – adapted to the new arrivals. The sensitivity and effectiveness of the community relations organisations and the welfare agencies in these areas is revealed.
British Asians The Diaspora S Relationship With Their New Homeland
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Author : Marta Zapała-Kraj
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-01-30
British Asians The Diaspora S Relationship With Their New Homeland written by Marta Zapała-Kraj and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-30 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 5.0, , language: English, abstract: Young Asians do not have language difficulties. This means that, as more Asian children grow up in Britain, there will be more chance to create friendships across ethnic boundaries, at least in theory. However, both Asian parents and young people still face hostility and sometimes discrimination from some sections of the white population, which discourages inter-ethnic friendships. There is a strong tendency to see South Asians in Britain but not as part of Britain. The representation of Asians in Britain continues to be refracted through a prism, which is unable to come to terms with the postcolonial nature of the South Asian presence. South Asian culture continues to be regarded as static, traditional or antimodern, patriarchal and authoritarian. This is in contrast to British/Western culture. Here, the most important obstacle is the idea of Western culture and values as being the norm and criterion in relation to which other cultures have to be positioned.
Transients Settlers And Refugees
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Author : Vaughan Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1986
Transients Settlers And Refugees written by Vaughan Robinson and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Aliens categories.
Based on a study of Asian immigrants in the British northern industrial town of Blackburn, this book makes a significant contribution to the study of race relations in the West. The author formulates and tests a model that expresses the relationship between Asian communities and British society in terms of "closure", "encapsulation", and "marginaltiy", stressing the significance of Asian values and experience. Within this framework he develops a better understanding than was previously possible of the complexities and discontinuities that characterize host-immigrant relationships.
Balti Britain
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Author : Ziauddin Sardar
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-03-22
Balti Britain written by Ziauddin Sardar and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sardar travels to Asian communities throughout the UK to tell the history of Asians in Britain - from the arrival of the first Indian in 1614, to the young extremists in Walthamstow mosque in 2006. He interweaves throughout an illuminating account of his own life, describing his carefree childhood in Pakistan, his family's emigration to racist 1950s Britain, and his adulthood straddling two cultures. Along the way he asks: are arranged marriages a good thing? Does the term 'Asian' obscure more than it conveys? Do vindaloo and balti actually exist? And is multiculturalism an impossible dream?
Asian Britain
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Author : Susheila Nasta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Asian Britain written by Susheila Nasta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Asians categories.
A dynamic visual history that showcases the diverse influence of south east Asians on contemporary British life.
Asians In Britain
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Author : Rozina Visram
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press
Release Date : 2002-04-20
Asians In Britain written by Rozina Visram and has been published by Pluto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-20 with Social Science categories.
In this new, groundbreaking book, Rozina Visram offers an extensively researched, comprehensive study of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes, soldiers, professionals and entrepreneurs of the 19th and 20th centuries. Drawing on primary resources and recently declassified government documents, Visram examines the nature and pattern of Asian migration; official attitudes to Asian settlement; the reactions and perceptions of the British people; the responses of the Asians themselves and their social, cultural and political lives in Britain. This imaginative and detailed investigation asks what it would have been like for Asians to live in Britain, in the heart of an imperial metropolis, and documents the anti-colonial struggle by Asians and their allies in the UK. It is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins of the many different communities that make up contemporary Britain.
