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Author : Rozina Visram
Publisher : Hodder Wayland
ISBN 13 : 9780750215183
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (151 download)
Download or read book The History of the Asian Community in Britain written by Rozina Visram and published by Hodder Wayland. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rozina Visram
Publisher : Wayland
ISBN 13 : 9780750251341
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book History of Communities in Britain written by Rozina Visram and published by Wayland. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporting history at Key Stages 3 and 4, this book examines why Asians have come to Britain over the years and how they have made a living and won political recognition. There are case studies of particular individuals.
Author : Michael H. Fisher
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A South-Asian History of Britain written by Michael H. Fisher and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Author : Sean McLoughlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317679679
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas written by Sean McLoughlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Rozina Visram
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745313733
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Asians In Britain written by Rozina Visram and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2002-04-20 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ron Ramdin
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Reimaging Britain written by Ron Ramdin and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to the growing influence of women on parliamentary legislation across the Commonwealth, and includes a study of how women's rights are promoted.
Author : Vinzent Fröhlich
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640123301
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Asian Indians in Great Britain written by Vinzent Fröhlich and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 1.3, University of Potsdam, course: The Commonwealth of Nations, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this essay, I will raise the question if the story of immigration of Asian Indians to Great Britain can be considered a "genuine success story". At first glance, no one would seriously doubt that. Asian Indians are the largest ethnic group in Britain and known as an "upwardly mobile people". They are successful entrepreneurs, restaurant owners and academics; as well as the inventors of the popular "British" national dish chicken tikka masala, which has recently "surpassed fish and chips in terms of popularity" (http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/british_Asian). They are also important influencers of Britain`s pop culture, especially through literature and successful films such as Bend it like Beckham, East is East or the TV show The Kumars at No.42 (ibid). The Anglo-Indian influence on British popular culture (ibid). The biggest influence that British Indians have on British popular culture can be seen by the large number of Indian restaurants, most of which are actually run by owners of Bangladeshi origin. Chicken tikka masala has surpassed fish and chips in terms of popularity and become Britain`s most popular national dish, even though it is a British Asian invention which was not known in India until it was introduced after many British tourists had requested it. Although Asian Indians are a vital part of the British culture, they still have to face many obstacles; racism and unemployment as well as intergenerational conflict are amongst these problems. [...]
Author : Rozina Visram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317415337
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Ayahs, Lascars and Princes written by Rozina Visram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People from the Indian sub-continent have been in Britain since the end of the seventeenth century. The presence of princes and maharajahs is well documented but this book, first published in 1986, was the first account of the ordinary people in Britain. This book will be of interest to students of history.
Author : Wai-ki Luk
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1934043869
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Chinatown in Britain written by Wai-ki Luk and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is on Chinese immigration in the past two decades and its spatial manifestations in Britain. A major argument in this study is that if the 1980s can be recorded as a turning point in the history of Chinese immigration to Britain because the decade marked a substantial increase in and a diversity of Chinese immigrants, it should also be considered a landmark in contemporary British urban history as it featured a major transformation in the Chinese urban landscape. This book examines how changes in the contexts of exit and reception have stimulated quantitative and qualitative changes in Chinese immigration, and how these changes in immigration facilitate the development of Chinatowns and Chinese settlements.
Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847086845
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Balti Britain written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher : Westbourne Press
ISBN 13 : 9781908906120
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Asian Britain written by Susheila Nasta and published by Westbourne Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic visual history that showcases the diverse influence of Southeast Asians on contemporary British life.
Author : Guido Maiwald
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656424829
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Asian-British inter-ethnic relationships as reviewed in the movie “Bend it like Beckham” written by Guido Maiwald and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, , language: English, abstract: The United Kingdom has one of the fastest growing mixed-raced populations worldwide. Despite the recent racially motivated violence mainly in northern towns, different ethnic communities are beginning to embrace with British culture. Inter-ethnic relationships like those in which Michael Caine, newsreader Trevor McDonald, singer Sade and writer Salman Rushdie are living in are becoming accepted and promoted by officials and the public. This work will try on the one hand to review the situation of people with Asian (especially Indian and Bangladeshi) migrant background and on the other hand, the problems that are focussed in the movie “Bend it like Beckham”.
Author : William G. Kuepper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000777642
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Ugandan Asians in Great Britain written by William G. Kuepper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908906113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Asian Britain written by Susheila Nasta and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic visual history that showcases the diverse influence of south east Asians on contemporary British life.
Author : Anandi Ramamurthy
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745333496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Black Star written by Anandi Ramamurthy and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Star documents the Asian Youth Movements that emerged in 1970s and 1980s Britain. These organizations, established by the children of early migrants, were determined to struggle against both the racism of the street and the state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from black power movements as well as anti-imperialist and workers struggles across the globe. Ramamurthy traces how they saw themselves as part of a wider collective of people struggling for social justice and national liberation. In their struggle to make Britain their home they identified with a broad-based black unity where black was a political color inspiring unity amongst all those struggling against racism. The book documents how by the late 1980s this broad based black identity disintegrated as Islamophobia became a new form of racism. In the process the legacy of the Asian Youth Movements has been largely hidden. Black Star retrieves this history and assesses it's importance for political struggles in Britain today.
Author : Christoph Kalter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108943861
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Postcolonial People written by Christoph Kalter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the histories of over half a million Portuguese settlers who 'returned' following the 1974 Carnation Revolution from Angola, Mozambique, and other parts of Portugal's crumbling empire to their country of origin and citizenship, itself undergoing significant upheaval. Looking comprehensively at the returnees' history and memory for the first time, this book contributes to debates about colonial racism and its afterlives. It studies migration, 'refugeeness,' and integration to expose an apparent paradox: The end of empire and the return migrations it triggered belong to a global history of the twentieth century and are shaped by transnational dynamics. However, they have done nothing to dethrone the primacy of the nation-state. If anything, they have reinforced it.
Author : G. Benton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230288502
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Chinese in Britain, 1800-Present written by G. Benton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing that transnational studies reinforce essentialist conceptions of identity and cultural authenticity in diasporic communities, and thus frustrate the promotion of ethnic co-existence and social cohesion in multi-ethnic societies.
