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Diaspora youth and ancestral homeland : British Pakistani/Kashmiri youth visiting kin in Pakistan and Kashmir / by Gill Cressey.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cressey, Gill.
Series:
Muslim minorities ; v. 5.
Muslim minorities, 1570-7571 ; v. 5
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Children of immigrants--Great Britain.
Children of immigrants.
Kashmiri (South Asian people)--Great Britain--Ethnic identity.
Kashmiri (South Asian people).
Muslim youth--Great Britain.
Muslim youth.
Pakistanis--Great Britain--Ethnic identity.
Pakistanis.
Social role--Great Britain.
Social role.
South Asian diaspora.
Transnationalism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (231 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Language Note:
English
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:
Intro
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY
Ontology and epistemology
Gaze
Discourses and narratives
Narrative study of lives
Interviews and video diary room
Young women interviewed 2003
Young men interviewed 2003
Interview schedule 11th July 2003
Interpretation and analysis of stories
Thematic investigation
Examples of themes/codes initially identified and later refined
Social research ethics
CHAPTER TWO JOURNEYS
Translocality
Two-way travelling
Going over there: four weddings and a funeral
Village: out of sight but not out of mind
Negotiating the borders
Change
CHAPTER THREE HOMELAND
Being 'valayati': what they think of us
Returning to Britain: back to 'reality'
Home from home from home
Territory: familiar places
CHAPTER FOUR RACE AND NATION
Immigration
Integration and segregation
Inclusion and exclusion
Nation
Dual nationality
'Race'
Immigrant relatives
CHAPTER FIVE DIASPORA
Heritage
Degrees of belonging
Chain diaspora
CHAPTER SIX UMMAH
'Othering' of the Oriental Islamic World in the West
Muslim subjectivities and Ummah
Being a Muslim in the West
Ummah and the current world order
Community: a mixed blessing
CHAPTER SEVEN GENDER
Gender: it's a man's world
CHAPTER EIGHT KIN
Biraderi/family: 'blood, soil, milk and honour'
The price of belonging versus the price of exclusion
CHAPTER NINE GENERATION AND CHANGE
Youth
Education: missing out
Mixing: diverse friendships
Human Rights
CHAPTER TEN LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL SHIFT
Language: our language
Bilingualism and culture
Shifting future perspectives
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-217) and index.
ISBN:
1-281-40040-8
9786611400408
90-474-1079-3
OCLC:
568279382
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789047410799 DOI

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