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Diaspora youth and ancestral homeland : British Pakistani/Kashmiri youth visiting kin in Pakistan and Kashmir / by Gill Cressey.
Van Pelt Library DA125.S57 C72 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cressey, Gill.
- Series:
- Muslim minorities 1570-7571 ; v. 5.
- Muslim minorities, 1570-7571 ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pakistanis--Great Britain--Ethnic identity.
- Pakistanis.
- Kashmiri (South Asian people)--Great Britain--Ethnic identity.
- Kashmiri (South Asian people).
- Muslim youth--Great Britain.
- Muslim youth.
- South Asian diaspora.
- Children of immigrants--Great Britain.
- Children of immigrants.
- Transnationalism.
- Social role--Great Britain.
- Social role.
- Ethnicity.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 221 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
- Summary:
- This book explores the relationships of thirty young people with their ancestral homeland, of Pakistan or Kashmir, and with British urban life. It does so using narratives from young people about their journeys from Birmingham in Britain to visit kin in villages in rural Pakistan and Kashmir. Its particular usefulness is the critique that its empirical data raises of 'conventional wisdom' of some governments, media, academic theorists and public bodies about Muslim Minorities.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Methodology of the Study 15
- Ontology and epistemology 15
- Gaze 16
- Discourses and narratives 19
- Narrative study of lives 24
- Interviews and video diary room 25
- Young women interviewed 2003 26
- Young men interviewed 2003 27
- Interview schedule 11th July 2003 28
- Interpretation and analysis of stories 31
- Thematic investigation 32
- Examples of themes/codes initially identified and later refined 35
- Social research ethics 35
- Chapter 2 Journeys 41
- Translocality 42
- Two-way travelling 44
- Going over there: four weddings and a funeral 46
- Village: out of sight but not out of mind 49
- Negotiating the borders 50
- Change 53
- Chapter 3 Homeland 55
- Being 'valayati': what they think of us 58
- Returning to Britain: back to 'reality' 60
- Home from home from home 62
- Territory: familiar places 64
- Chapter 4 Race and Nation 69
- Immigration 72
- Integration and segregation 74
- Inclusion and exclusion 76
- Nation 78
- Dual nationality 80
- 'Race' 82
- Immigrant relatives 84
- Chapter 5 Diaspora 89
- Heritage 95
- Degrees of belonging 98
- Chain diaspora 100
- Chapter 6 Ummah 103
- 'Othering' of the Oriental Islamic World in the West 103
- Muslim subjectivities and Ummah 108
- Being a Muslim in the West 112
- Ummah and the current world order 116
- Community: a mixed blessing 117
- Chapter 7 Gender 121
- Gender: it's a man's world 129
- Chapter 8 Kin 139
- Biraderi/family: 'blood, soil, milk and honour' 146
- The price of belonging versus the price of exclusion 149
- Chapter 9 Generation and Change 161
- Youth 161
- Education: missing out 172
- Mixing: diverse friendships 174
- Human Rights 177
- Chapter 10 Language and Cultural Shift 179
- Language: our language 179
- Bilingualism and culture 181
- Shifting future perspectives 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004153462
- OCLC:
- 70483838
- Publisher Number:
- 9789004153462
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