Postcolonial People South Asians in Britain

by Sayyid, S.; Kalra, V.S.; Ali, Nasreen

• ISBN13: 9781850657972
• ISBN10: 1850657971
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-22
• Publisher: Hurst

Summary

A lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature. This specially commissioned book combines conceptually innovative analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The migration and settlement of South Asians in large numbers in Britain is examined in the context of the postcolonial condition, in which boundaries between the West and Rest, centre and periphery, home and abroad are increasingly blurred.

Author Biography

Nasreen Ali is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Primary Care, University of Leeds.

Virinder Kalra is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester; he is author of From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks (2000) and co-author of Diaspora and Hybridity (2005).

S. Sayyid is University Research Fellow in "Race," Ethnicity and Postcolonialism in the School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Leeds. He is the author of A Fundamental Fear (2nd ed., 2003).