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Shah, Ambreen. "South Asian Muslims : adjustments to British citizenship." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/292565.
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Over the last twenty years there has been growing evidence of a distinct Islamic identity emerging from within the Western world, an identity that has been portrayed as incompatible with Western ideals. This thesis is based on a small-scale qualitative study of the reality of this identity, as experienced by twenty-three South Asian Muslims living in the south of England, and the impact on notions of citizenship and the rights and obligations this infers. The thesis contrasts Western notions of citizenship with Islamic thinking. It recognises that although there are points of convergence between the two, a fundamental difference remains. It is argued, where Western notions of citizenship give priority to individual sovereignty, Islamic notions place sovereignty in God and as such define citizenship as the relationship of the individual not to the state, but to God via the state. The thesis explores how this Islamic ideal is made relevant by South Asian Muslims living in Britain. Theoretically the thesis explores the way in which Muslim identity is universal, group centred and individual. It is argued that, despite differences, as humans we do share some universally shared values that give us a 'cornman human identity'. However these shared values are culturally embedded and experienced through distinct (albeit complex) 'cultural communities'. It is argued that just because people have, in certain circumstances, a group identity, it should not necessarily lead to the conclusion that everyone in that group will experience that identity in the same way. As such identity is simultaneously individual. Results of the research suggest that for South Asian Muslims of Britain assimilation is impossible and largely undesirable. However, they suggest that this does not mean that most Muslims do not want to be an 'integrated' aspect of British life. However integration does not mean 'being the same as'. There is a strong recognition that Muslims are different and there is to a large extent a desire for this difference to be maintained. Final analysis, of the data generated, indicates that there are four ideal typical strategies employed by British Muslims in making sense of their faith in the British context. These are identified as: That of 'Lapsed'/ambivalent Muslims where Islam is deemed important in that is provides a 'moral code' by which to live life but is, in the main, relegated to the private sphere. That of Selective Muslims where being a Muslim is of importance but for whom Islam does not impact on their lives in any substantive way. That of 'Traditional' Muslims where being a Muslim is very important but of equal importance is the ethno-cultural similarities they have with other Muslims. That of Engaged Muslims where there is an active engagement with Islam and a conscientious effort to implement Islam in all aspects of life Three levels of engagement with British society are also identified (although it must be recognised engagement with Islam does not necessarily lead to (dis)engagement with citizenship/the public sphere): engagement, partial engagement and disengagement. The thesis recognises that a multiculturalist paradigm has encouraged difference to be seen as static and unchanging, rather then fluid and dynamic as it is in reality. In this context Muslims' desire to keep to their faith (even if it is variously expressed), and retain (certain) social differences can be misunderstood as an unwillingness to 'integrate'. An ethnic notion of citizenship has made it hard for Muslims to be equal citizens contributing to their sense of being an 'outsider'. This thesis argues for a more inclusive definition of citizenship that understands that citizens will have multiple loyalties and responsibilities. Essentialist notions of Islam have perpetuated the misconception of Muslims as different with no commonalties with majority society. This is at the expense of historically rooted social and economic deprivation, and continuing (albeit not as obvious) prejudice and discrimination that many Muslim communities experience.
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Millings, Matthew. "Policing British Asian Identities; policing and the situated negotiation of belonging and ethnicity among young British Asian men in Staffordshire." Thesis, Keele University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.572444.
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This thesis has two fundamental aims. Firstly, it contributes to the on-going production of a cultural sociology of policing, and secondly it helps to develop a more complete understanding of the challenges of policing culturally diverse, ethnically mixed and plural polities. It does so by examining how the police as an institution, and issues around policing, security and safety more generally, contribute to the competing identity constructions of young British Asian men in Staffordshire. By adopting and adapting Floya Anthias' (2001, 2002) concept of 'translocational positionalitv' this study sets out a framework for understanding processes of identity construction that enable us to better interpret the meaning and symbolic capital of young British Asian mens' real and imagined exchanges with the police. At the same time it takes us to towards more tuned and appropriate vocabularies of identity and social groupings than those currently employed within policing (and indeed wider public service) provision. By understanding individual and collective negotiations of belonging at the intersections of wider, national and global understandings of culture, community and ethnicity, it is possible to recognise their impact upon the experience and nature of the local as the young people in question forge their sense of being Asian/being Muslim in Staffordshire. By placing the situated constructions of individual and group self-definition within their fractured sets of social relations the study furthers understanding of the experiences of integration and marginalisation that generate the tangible challenges for multicultural politics and social justice to surmount. Within the dynamic and complex negotiations of identity, interactions - real or imagined - with the police have to be located. On one level, relationships with, and dispositions towards, the police serve to craft and re-work ethnically coded claims of belonging and political participation. On another, coming to terms with the processes that manufacture individual and collective definition exposes the complexity of the on-going generation of diverse publics evolving within the ethnically diverse, culturally plural and racially mixed Britain that the organisation is charged with serving.
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Girishkumar, Divya. "Diaspora and multiculturalism : British South Asian women's writing." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73381/.
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This thesis analyses how the British South Asian diaspora is conceptualized, understood and reflected in a selection of female-authored literary texts which engage with the multicultural policies of the British state from the 1950s to the present. The primary sources include Attia Hosain’s Phoenix Fled (1953) and Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), Kamala Markandaya’s Possession (1963) and The Nowhere Man (1972), Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked Old Woman (1987), Meera Syal’s Anita and Me (1996), Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Shelina Zahra Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf: Muslim Woman seeks the One (2009) and Rosie Dastgir’s A Small Fortune (2012). I conceive of British multicultural state policies as unfolding in three major phases: Assimilation (1950- 1979), Integration (1980-2001), Social Cohesion/Interculturalism (2001- present). The thesis examines these policy changes and illustrates how these shifts are mirrored in and shape the character of British South Asian women’s writings. In the light of this I argue that British South Asian women writers’ engagement with a sense of exile, dislocation or a ‘teleology of return’ along with a symbolic longing to create imaginary homelands has produced new alliances which exist outside what has been called the national time/space in order ‘to live inside, with a difference’. Through the selected writers’ individual attempts to configure new fictional home spaces, a new architecture for the diasporic imagination is constructed around the poetics of home and the multicultural politics of identity. Such cross-cultural literary interventions exist both within and outside colonial and postcolonial genealogies, reconfiguring the critical geographies by which they have been mostly defined. The first two chapters of the thesis attempt to define the complex configurations of the concept of multiculturalism and its interconnections with the terminology of diaspora. I have adopted a reading strategy tracing the South Asian migration history to Britain and the early literary representations which powerfully illuminate the fragmented imagination of the South Asian diaspora in terms of contemporary theoretical paradigms. The next three chapters analyse literary representations by Attia Hosain, Kamala Markandaya, Ravinder Randhawa, Meera Syal, Monica Ali, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed and Rosie Dastgir, who highlight and complicate the issues of race, ethnicity and gender in relation to the rhetoric of multiculturalism and multicultural policies. The writers use various strategies that testify to the innate relation between the political ‘real’ and the literary ‘imaginary’ and explain how real life experiences provide fuel to the ‘diasporic imaginary’ and affirm the transnational potency of literature.
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Pérez, Fernández Irene. "In search of new spaces: contemporary black British and Asian British women writers." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Oviedo, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/83470.
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La tesis doctoral es un estudio de la obra literaria de novelistas contemporáneas británicas pertenecientes a la diáspora africana, caribeña y asiática que emigró al Reino Unido en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. El corpus literario bajo análisis engloba las siguientes autoras y obras: Andrea Levy, Small Island (2005), Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2001), Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000), Diana Evans, 26ª (2006) y Jackie Kay, Trumpet (1999). La tesis analiza la representación y codificación espacial en la obra de dichas autoras partiendo de los postulados teóricos que consideran el espacio como constructo social que esconde implicaciones de clase, raza y género (Lefebvre, 2005, Soja 1996, Massey, 1996, 2005). La tesis estudia el espacio en los tres niveles en los que se encuentra operativa la relación cuerpo-identidad-espacio (Keith and Pile, 1993). Estos tres niveles son, por un lado, el espacio individual de cuerpo, por otro, la familia y la comunidad y, por último la sociedad. El estudio de estas obras literarias da cuenta de la necesidad de negociar nuevas formas de entender la identidad y la realidad espacial británica, a la vez que pone de manifiesto su carácter multicultural.
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Leung, Parie Pui Yee. "Yellow Earth and Future Generation : correlations in British East Asian and Asian Canadian drama." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55084.
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Since 1995 and 2002, London’s Yellow Earth Theatre (YET) and Toronto’s fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company have been producing work under the identity labels of “British East Asian theatre” and “Asian Canadian theatre” respectively. Emerging out of different socio-cultural contexts, the companies have nonetheless produced plays that address similar themes around mixed-race identities, immigration, and the experiences of first- and second-generation East Asians living in Britain and Canada. Despite burgeoning research on Asian Canadian theatre and British Chinese culture—developments that echo the pioneering directions of Asian American theatre scholarship—studies have tended to focus exclusively on cultural work produced by East Asian artists within the national boundaries of America, Canada and Australia. Inspired by two emotionally charged events that I attended in Toronto and in London that drew attention to the parallels between ethno-national theatre produced in different western cultures, this thesis investigates the background, mandates, and key works of two leading theatre companies in order to compare their dramatic strategies. Using data from published and unpublished scripts, published reviews and interviews, archival video where available, and the companies’ press and public material through their websites, this thesis argues that comparing theatre companies across ethno-national contexts can reveal insights about how familiar dramatic strategies such as the absurd, fantastical, spectral, and audience interaction, have additional import in identity-centred work.Arts, Faculty of
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Maxey, Ruth. "The South Asian Atlantic : Home, Nation and Identity in British Asian and South Asian American Writing From 1970-2004." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498896.
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Mok, Kin-wai Patrick. "The British intra-Asian trade with China, 1800-1842 /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B30708369.
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Hashemi, Amtul Habib. "Schizophrenia, expressed emotion and ethnicity : a British Asian study." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497552.
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Three studies are reported which investigate the relevance of the expressed emotion (EE) construct for families/patients from non-western backgrounds (Pakistani Muslims and Sikhs). The first study was concerned with the relationship between ethnicity and EE in patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and also tested four hypotheses which looked at the association of ethnicity and EE with each of the following: the relative's experience of burden; the relative's perception of the amount of social support they received; the use of coping strategies by relatives; and patient's and relative's perceptions of one another. The results indicated a significant difference between ethnic groups in the number of relatives exhibiting high levels of EE: 55% of whites, 80% of Muslims and 30% of Sikhs were rated as high EE. High EE relatives were also more likely to report lower levels of social support, and were more likely to hold negative perceptions about the patient and believe that the patient also holds negative perceptions about them. The second study looked at the effect of EE on the course of schizophrenia. Course of the illness was not significantly different across the three ethnic groups. Using conventional criteria, low EE in whites was predictive of fewer relapses, but was not so for Asians. When the cut-off for emotional over-involvement was changed from 3 to 4 in the case of the Muslims, high EE then did predict relapse. The third study looked at the prevalence of high EE in non-clinical white and Muslim populations: Muslims were significantly more likely than whites to be rated high EE. The results suggest that Muslims are more likely to be classified as being high EE as judged by western cultural norms. Hence, in order to obtain better predictive validity of EE for relapse in schizophrenia in Pakistani culture, the cut-off point for high EE should be adapted to take this into account. Needless to say, further research must be conducted to establish the normative levels for the overt expression of emotion in Pakistani culture.
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Mok, Kin-wai Patrick, and 莫健偉. "The British intra-Asian trade with China, 1800-1842." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45014930.
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Hinchcliffe, Roderick Frank. "The iron status in young British South Asian Children." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425567.
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Pett, Emma. "A contested category : British audiences and Asian Extreme films." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/ae95cc3a-5b49-4072-b5d2-f917f1854439.
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This thesis explores the reception and fandom of Asian Extreme films in the UK over the last twelve years. It draws on the findings of a research project undertaken in collaboration with the British Board of Film classification (BBFC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The twenty-first century has seen an explosion in the popularity of Asian cult cinema in the West; it is within this evolving landscape that, for a number of years, the BBFC encountered difficulties when classifying many Asian Extreme films. This research draws on Annette Kuhn’s model of censorship as an on-going and provisional process that arises out of the interaction between a number of institutions, discourses and practices; in this case, the competing discourses generated by Tartan’s controversial marketing strategies, the regulatory activity of the BBFC, the response of the British ‘mainstream’ press and the practices and cultures generated by fan communities have all contributed to the discursive frameworks influencing the reception of these films in the UK. As a mixed-method, multi-stage research project this thesis combines archival research, a small-scale reception study, a survey of online fan activity, twelve semi-structured interviews and an online quali-quantitative questionnaire. Using these research tools, it sets out to capture a portrait of the pleasures, enjoyments and meanings that British audiences derive from Asian Extreme films. As a contested category, the Asian Extreme genre acts as important site for investigating a range of academic debates that have evolved in the overlapping fields of film censorship, fan studies, cult cinema, genre studies and East Asian cinema. In these ways, this study contributes to a number of academic debates and, in particular, offers new insights into the practices of film regulation in contemporary British culture.
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Mohee, S. "Young British South Asian Muslim women : identities and marriage." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1370625/.
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This thesis focuses on young and educated British South Asian Muslim women, and their negotiations of gendered identities and marriage in multicultural Britain. I conducted 30 in-depth interviews with Muslim women from northern England so as to explore how educational and employment experiences are altering women’s gender identities and consequently, their understandings of marriage. Firstly, I look at how Muslim women develop ‘alternative’ identities as they navigate ‘Islamic’ and ‘British’ ideals. I analyse whether higher education and paid employment influence women’s perspectives in constructing ‘new’ identities as they explore boundaries. My analysis is embedded within theoretical frameworks encompassing racialised, politicised and gendered discourses on Muslim identities in the UK. In essence, I concentrate on how women manage Muslimness as they evolve in their socio-political contexts. Secondly, I focus on how marriage is perceived by British South Asian Muslim women. The debates revolve around the gendered expectations women face from their communities; for instance, women navigate ‘choice’ and ‘agency’ in cultural practices such as arranged marriages. Furthermore, marriage, as an institution, remains a ‘religious duty’ in Islam. I raise questions about how Muslim women frame marriage as they generate new understandings of marriage through their negotiations of the ‘nikah’ and the civil registry (secular state law). Throughout these thematic discussions, the tensions engendered by the dichotomy ‘religion’ v/s ‘culture’ remain evident as Muslim women navigate contextual identities. Cultural gendered ‘traditions’ expected from their families are re-worked as they delay marriage so as to gain degrees and secure careers. Clearly, women are deconstructing stereotypical notions of ‘Muslimness’ as fixed categories so as to express individual definitions of meanings of British Muslimness. The prioritising of an Islamic identity over other identities (ethnic, citizenship and national) is evident. However, with education, women are contesting and interpreting Islam from new angles. They critique gendered practices such as ‘talaq’ and polygamy, concepts associated with Islamic marriage, in an attempt to embrace a discourse of equality within marriage, hence leading them to generate new gender identities.
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Forbes, Alison. "Sport, London 2012 & young British Asians : a sociological study of young British Asian sports participation, consumption and identity, post-London 2012." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42774.
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This thesis explores the sporting interests and experiences of a small sample of young British Asians, drawn from two UK cities: Leicester and Wolverhampton. Framed in the immediate post-London 2012 period, the thesis focuses, broadly, on three key themes: sporting consumption practices pre- and post-2012; the construction of local, national and ethnic identities through sport; and participation opportunities for ‘doing’ sport for British Asians in these two different locations. Preparations for London 2012 included promises of a nationwide sporting legacy that would ‘inspire a generation’ of young people to get involved in local sporting activities and reconnect the UK’s diverse communities. However, British Asians representing Great Britain in Olympic sport remain an infrequent sight, despite the presence of large British Asian amateur sporting communities. Twenty-eight semistructured interviews were completed with a sample of young British Asian males and females to explore, within this context of elite-level underrepresentation, the local impact of the Games on the overall British Asian sporting experience. A central theme within this research was the generational shift apparent in the feelings of belonging to England and Britain, as citizens and sports fans. The alternative structure of competition in the Olympic Games promoted an inclusive national identity; one that celebrated difference and diversity and offered a way in to the national collective that is sometimes lacking in other contexts. However, my sample of young British Asians did not notice increased local opportunities to be physically active, and thus their participation habits remained stagnant. Despite initial positivity and increased feelings of belonging during the Games, London 2012 was not the transformative moment promised. Positive local effects were, at best, ephemeral.
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Khamkar, Gloria. "The evolution of British Asian radio in England, 1960-2004." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2017. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/29335/.
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This doctoral research examines the evolution of British Asian radio in England from 1960 to 2004. During the post-war period an Asian community started migrating to Britain to seek employment as a result of the industrial labour shortage. The BBC and the independent local radio sector tried to cater to this newly arrived migrant community through its radio output either in their mother tongue or in the English language. Later, this Asian community started its own separate radio services. This research project explores this transformation of Asian radio, from broadcasting radio programmes for the Asian community on existing radio stations, to the creation of independent local and community radio stations, catering to the Asian community exclusively in England. Existing research concentrates on the stereotype images and lack of representation of Asian community on the British radio; it lacks a comprehensive overview of the role of radio during the settlement period of the newly migrant Asian community. Hence, this research sets out to fill that gap by bringing in the significant facet of the early years’ Asian radio programming, mainly on the BBC, and the development of independent British Asian radio broadcasting in England. The main methods used to conduct this research are archives and in-depth semi-structured interviews, which have helped me to understand the relationship between the development of British Asian radio and the ongoing migration of the Asian community in England. This research provides a fresh and strong dimension of British Asian radio services in England. It confirms that the issues of access, participation, representation, integration, and linguistic expression were identified, discussed and acted upon by British and Asian radio enthusiasts, radio campaigners and Asian community groups since the 1960s, which led to the creation of British Asian radio in England. I believe this research will bring forth the importance and relevance of having British Asian radio services in England.
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Ahmed, Rehana. "Locating class in multicultural Britain : a materialist reading of some contemporary British Asian and South Asian texts." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430263.
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Franceschelli, Michela. "South Asian young British Muslims : identity, habitus and the family field." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/47884/.
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Since the 1950s the incoming flows of immigrants have deeply transformed the social composition of British society which has become increasingly multicultural. Amongst other minority groups the position of Muslims, who are the second largest religious group in the UK, is particularly difficult. The 9/11 and London bombings (2005) have increased the moral panic about Muslims perceived as ‘hard to integrate’ and a threat to western democracies. In this context, the thesis aims to explore the negotiation of religious and national identities amongst young British Muslims from South Asian backgrounds as well as the strategies used by their parents to transmit values. The thesis applies and extends Bourdieu’s (1930-2002) theory of habitus and social field to the study of identity negotiation and intergenerational transmission. In so doing, the study adopts a sociological perspective which is sensitive to individual action, and conceptualises identity as the process of individuals assimilating structural conditions, such as Islam and Britishness, to then produce subjective practices, tastes, values and beliefs. The research employs a mixed method approach which started with an in-school exploratory survey (N=560) with young people aged 14-18 years old from different ethnic and religious backgrounds in a inner London boroughs and in Oldham, followed by semi-structured interviews (N=52) with South Asian British Muslim young people and their parents. Visual methods in the form of photographs taken by young people were used as prompts during their interviews. The thesis contributes to the understanding of identity construction in the context of South Asian Muslim communities in the UK. Findings from the survey confirm that Islam was the main source of self-definition for Muslim young people, while qualitative analysis suggests that this emphasis on religion originated in the family field. The concept of Islamic capital was developed to understand the specific role of Islam as a resource for parenting. However, Islam was not the only focus in the family field, and in line with other research on migration, results highlight the importance of education for social mobility within South Asian Muslim migrant families from different socio-economic backgrounds. Finally, the study illustrates that multiple identities are not necessarily exclusive, but rather negotiated through strategies such as those adopted by British Muslim young people and embodied by three emerging typologies: conforming and contesting parental culture and Islam, and combining identities. In the context of multicultural Britain, these findings show how the traditional notions of national identity and belonging are put into question and transformed by the development of new and fluid identities.
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Saha, Anamik. "The postcolonial cultural economy the politics of British Asian cultural production." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514380.
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Reed, Kate. "Contextualising syncrecy : exploring health beliefs and behaviours of British Asian mothers." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327596.
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Jones, Margaret. "British colonial health policy 1900-1940 : Ceylon and the Asian colonies." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325805.
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Jha, Meeta Rani. "The emotional politics of Bombay cinema and the British Asian imaginary." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432009.
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Ghani, Atif Mohammed. "A sociological study of the British independent film field : the case of British-Asian film production 1976-1996." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1535/.
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This thesis performs a social mapping of the field of British-Asian independent film between 1976 and 1996. Through a practical application of Pierre Bourdieu's methodological approach to reading cultural production, this research examines a series of film production contexts as a means of revealing refracted homologies between particular texts, the cultural field and the broader field of power in Britain. The empirical core of the thesis identifies and examines five different film practices: an excluded film practice, an institutional film practice, a theoretical film practice, a successful film practice and contemporary film practices. The selected films are primarily analysed as cultural "barometers" of the given social contexts, providing for each of the empirical chapters a basis from which to map the genesis of a particular film practice. By mapping the relations between cultural production, the key social events and forces for change as actualised within the films, each empirical chapter aims to reveal the dominant logic which informed given film practices. Ethnicity, instead of functioning as the essential object of analysis, provides this research with a starting point and the key sampling device to map the British independent film field. In principal, this thesis examines the ways in which images of "ethnic minorities" in the British independent film field have been both liberated and regulated through the presence of dominant dispositions which have structured the field generating, and consecrating particular film-making practices over and above others.
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Bhar, Aparna [Verfasser], and Hilary [Akademischer Betreuer] Dannenberg. "Representations of British South Asian Diasporic Identities in Contemporary British Audio-Visual Media / Aparna Bhar ; Betreuer: Hilary Dannenberg." Trier : Universität Trier, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1197806903/34.
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Ratna, Aarti. "British Asian females' racialised and gendered experiences of identity and women's football." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491098.
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This thesis provides a detailed analysis of British Asian females' expenences of playing women's football in England. Even though a growing number of British Asian girls and women are known to be playing the game in recent years, they have not generally been valued and/or accepted members of the field. Arguably, their positioning(s) as insiders/outsiders in relation to women's football is tenuous and involves different levels of belonging and non-belonging. This is an under-researched area of study and therefore I use ethnographic research methods - particularly interviews and participant observation - to prioritise the voices and experiences of British Asian female footballers. In this way I give the research participants the power to speak about their experiences in a way that makes sense to them as 'players' of the game. The research specifically examines how the subjective experiences of British Asian female football players is shaped by the material conditions of their lives, and also engages with how they actively respond to such forces. Acknowledging the heterogeneity of British Asian football players and illustrating both similarities and differences in terms of their everyday experiences have been central to the research processes. The findings of this study show how these females - in relation to their personal circumstances - carve out a sense of belonging for themselves through on-going forms of negotiation. Commonalities in their experiences signify the pervasiveness of gender, 'race'/ ethnicity, nation and class as well as other ideas about family, generation, style and consumption which construct , new articulations of 'femaleness' and 'Asianness'. Identities are becoming increasingly hybrid resulting in a wide array of experiences and positioning(s) which are not clear-cut or easy to decipher but are nuanced and complex. Engaging with the vicissitudes of British Asian females' football experiences this account provides a timely contribution to the sociology of sport as well as to the fields of gender, ethnic and racial studies.
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Hudson, Nichola Anne. "Infertility in British South Asian communities : negotiating the community and the clinic." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4817.
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Whilst there is research evidence on the consequences of involuntary childlessness in majority ethnic communities in the UK and other more developed societies, and also a growing literature on the experiences of infertile women in less well-resourced countries, there is a dearth of research exploring the potential impact of ethnicity and culture on the experience of infertility within Western societies.To begin to address this lacuna, this thesis was designed to exlore the social meanings of infertility in British South Asian communities, and the infertility experiences of individual South Asian women. The study used a qualitative, interpretive approach, and employed a multiple method design. The first phase of the study consisted of 13 single gender focus groups with a total of 87 participants of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic origin, which explored public perceptions of involuntary childlessness and attitudes towards infertility treatments. The second phase of the study included in-depth interviews with 15 individuals of South Asian ethnic origin who had experience of infertility.
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Bahaj, Julia. "Multiple selves, contingent identities : the interstitial lives of British Asian Muslim women." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284576.
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Mansoor, Nasreen. "Exploring honour and shame for South Asian British Muslim men and women." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/exploring-honour-and-shame-for-south-asian-british-muslim-men-and-women(56242d2f-fee4-49d3-8ad1-313cb49a65ae).html.
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This study explored honour and shame for South Asian British Muslim men and women. It aimed to offer plausible answers to the definition, concept, impact and gender differences of honour and shame for this sociocultural and faith group of people. This qualitative piece of research encompassed triangulation of individual interviews, focus groups and photo elicitation. Thirty participants who were of South Asian British Muslim identities were recruited via a purposive sampling strategy. This included men and women of diverse demographics and locations with an age range of nineteen - sixty-four. The majority of interviews were conducted in English, with some participant's sporadic dialogue in Arabic, Bangla, Punjabi and Urdu. The methodology was thematic analysis. Seven main themes were identified via thematic analysis of the data. A humanistic stance underpinned the conduct of the study alongside a hermeneutic researcher stance. A social constructivist and interpretive epistemological position in conjunction with a critical realism perspective infused the research process. A predominantly insider researcher position was established which was a major influence in eliciting the rich, deep and meaningful data which emerged regarding the honour and shame phenomena. Researcher reflexivity was a key factor in how the research was approached, conducted, interpreted and understood. This study identified a threefold patriarchal construct; Western, South Asian and Muslim underpinned the honour and shame phenomena. The research illustrated honour appeared to be relational and the nexus which held the family relationships together. Shame seemed to be the substance which fractured this complicated structure. There were narratives of some South Asian British Muslim women being sectioned and admitted into psychiatric institutions due to them being at risk to themselves/and or other persons. The deterioration in their mental health appeared to be closely associated with their experiences of being subjected to abusive honour and shame stipulations. The study also found cultural and traditional mores were very influential components in deleterious honour and shame practices, which at times replaced Islamic principles. One of the more significant findings to emerge from this study was that some British Muslim Bangladeshi communities practised a bride price system. These findings cannot be extrapolated to all South Asian British Muslims as they derived from a small sample size.
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Buksh, Seema M. "Sexual Desire as Experienced by South Asian Women Living in British Columbia." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1576162139475512.
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Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar. "British South Asian identities and the popular cultures of British bhangra music, bollywood films and Zee TV in Birmingham." Thesis, Online version, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.343431.
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Grewal, Amandeep Singh. "Lived experiences of South Asian educational leaders within a British Columbia school district." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57591.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of South Asian administrators within a British Columbia School District (BCSD). Through a qualitative research design involving hour long semi-structured interviews, 70% of South Asian administrators within the BCSD were interviewed regarding three major research questions: (a) the challenges South Asian administrators face or have faced in their role as administrators or in the attainment of their positions as educational leaders in the BCSD, (b) how the daily experiences of these administrators impact their leadership style, and (c) how these administrators described their impact on the educational experiences of South Asian students in their schools. A Critical Race Theory theoretical framework was used to analyze interview data. The three major findings associated with each of the research questions, respectively, were: (a) South Asian administrators face endemic racism within their roles in the BCSD that prejudice their work capacities, (b) South Asian administrators have a distinct leadership style as it relates to South Asian students which is influenced by their service-oriented upbringing rooted in their common cultural orientation, and (c) South Asian administrators believe they have a greater positive impact on the educational experiences of South Asian students than White administrators. These three major findings were a critical counter-story of the tenuous space of leadership within the BCSD for South Asian administrators, and the effect of their role modelling upon the schooling experiences of South Asian students in the larger hegemonic institutional structures of schooling in the BCSD. The opportunity to voice this counter-story opened up spaces for dialogue around issues of race and racism within the BCSD, and may serve to inform a more critical anti-racist praxis for potential future policy shifts in the BCSD.Education, Faculty of
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Desai, Philly. "Spaces of identity, cultures of conflict : the development of new British Asian masculinities." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322318.
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Wainwright, Leon Roy. "Perception and presence in British art of the Asian, African and Caribbean diaspora." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407182.
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Ahmed, Yasmin. "Gendering the diaspora : continuity and development in Post-War Asian British women's writing." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418967.
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Bentcheva, Evgenia. "The cultural politics of British South Asian performance art, 1960s to the present." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2018. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30317/.
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Hoene, Christin. "Sing who you are : music and identity in postcolonial British-South Asian literature." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7794.
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This thesis examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the possibility of constructing postcolonial identity. The focus is on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India and the United Kingdom, as well as Pakistan and the United States: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (1993), Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag (1993), Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag (2004), Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and The Black Album (1995), and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999). The analysed novels feature different kinds of music, from Indian classical to non-classical traditions, and from Western classical music to pop music and rock 'n' roll. Music is depicted as a cultural artefact and as a purely aestheticised art form at the same time. As a cultural artefact, music derives meaning from its socio-cultural context of production and serves as a frame of reference to explore postcolonial identities on their own terms. As purely aesthetic art, music escapes its contextual meaning. The transcendental qualities of music render music a space where identities can be expressed irrespective of origin and politics of location. Thereby, music in the novels marks a very productive space to imagine the postcolonial nation and to rewrite imperial history, to express the cultural hybridity of characters in-between nations, to analyse the state of the nation and life in the multicultural diaspora of contemporary Great Britain, and to explore the ramifications of cultural globalisation versus cultural imperialism. Analysing music's cultural meaning and aesthetic value in relation to postcolonial identity, this thesis opens up new frames of textual and cultural analysis that help understand the postcolonial condition from the interdisciplinary perspective of word and music studies.
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Malik, Sarita. "Representing Black Britain : a history of Black and Asian images on British television /." London : Sage, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37742086d.
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Lindridge, Andrew Martin. "Investigating the extent to which British Indians draw upon Asian Indian and British Caucasian cultural values in brown good purchase." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4033/.
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This dissertation aims to investigate the extent to which British Indians draw upon Asian Indian and British Caucasian cultural values in the purchase of a brown good. Drawing upon previously published research and primary data (including a field trip to India, preliminary investigative interviews, two pilot studies and the main survey questionnaire) eleven hypotheses are developed, simultaneously tested and results discussed. A sample size of 425 usable responses, made it possible to use Factor analysis, Pearson's correlation coefficient and Multinomial logistical regression (MLM). MLM's use within cross-cultural research represents an important methodological contribution to this area, as it appears not to have been used before. The eleven hypotheses in this thesis represent the culmination of an extensive literature review process and understanding of cross-cultural methodological issues. The hypotheses measure three research themes: acculturation, consumer behaviour and culture. At the causality level, this research study supports previous research that indicates culture as influencing consumer behaviour. More importantly, British Indians consumer behaviour and cultural values are similar, but in differing aspects, to both Asian Indians and British Caucasians. This finding makes a major contribution to our understanding of British Indians and culture's affect on consumer behaviour. Further research into British Indians is encouraged using participants from different socio-economic groups and geographical locations. Implications of the literature and the research's findings are used to increase awareness of multi-culturalism from both an academic and commercial perspective. Cross-cultural methodological limitations are provided, indicating epistemological issues that require further discussion if this research field is to advance.
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Aziz, Rashid. "Taking the strain : second generation British Asian Muslim males and arranged marriage in London." Thesis, City, University of London, 2017. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17293/.
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This thesis considers how second generation British Asian Muslim males negotiate arranged marriage, religion and leisure, and how this negotiation is a means to achieve a culturally prescribed goal. The culturally prescribed goal will be demonstrated to be the attainment of wealth and the maintenance of family bonds. An ethnographic study of thirty second generation British Asian Muslim males was conducted in order to understand how decisions regarding marriage and leisure are made. The modes of negotiation of marriage, leisure and religion are analysed using Merton’s (1938, 1957) Anomie and Strain theory as well as Murphy and Robinson’s (2008) concept of the maximiser. Empirical research is used to describe and analyse how the maximiser achieves the culturally prescribed goal mentioned above. It is argued that the maximiser uses both legitimate and illegitimate means in order to achieve a culturally prescribed goal. The legitimate means in this study are having an arranged marriage and abiding by rules of Islam and the family. It will be argued that through a process of intense socialisation, the means to achieve the culturally prescribed goal are learnt from childhood for some British Asian Muslims. It will be argued that culture is misrepresented as religion in order to facilitate this process of intense socialisation in some British Muslim communities which creates a pressure to conform. The modes of adaptation to this pressure including the conformist, the innovator, the Ritualist, the Retreatist and the Rebel are explored. The focus of the study is on the maximiser as it is argued that the maximiser reproduces a system of transnational consanguineous arranged marriages. The methods of negotiation are analysed using symbolic interactionist perspectives, namely Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Goffman 1959) and Delinquency and Drift (Matza 1964). This process of negotiating marriage particularly when considering transnational consanguineous marriages, is referred to as the lifelong Business of Marriage. The Business of Marriage is defined as: a system in which transnational consanguineous marriages are taking place under the following conditions: (1) There is a process of intense socialisation where respect for parents and cultural practices are internalised (2) where British nationality is given to the incoming spouse (3) where financial and social support is given to the British husband. This thesis will demonstrate that British Asian Muslim males who fall under the category of the Maximiser are willing to forgo the opportunity of choosing their own spouses in order to inherit the family wealth and to keep bonds between families strong. It is also demonstrated that when a transnational marriage fails within the period required in order for the transnational wife to apply for a British visa, the British husband will stay legally married to his spouse in order to ensure the attainment of a permanent British visa. Finally, this research explores the future generations and argues that the Business of Arranged Marriage will end with the fourth generation of British Asian Muslim males. It is argued that this is the case because at this time, the first generation of south Asian Muslim immigrants into this country will not be present and the wealth of the families would have been passed on to the next generation. This thesis concludes by recommending further research into British Asian Muslim males and marriage, specifically around the areas of forced and arranged marriage.
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Nazir, Bushra. "Improving understanding and access to treatment for eating disorders among British South Asian females." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/improving-understanding-and-access-to-treatment-for-eating-disorders-among-british-south-asian-females(f72ae258-d1a4-425e-836d-cc011ceb6726).html.
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Introduction: Eating disorders were previously regarded as a Western culture-bound syndrome affecting only young Western women. However they have been described in the UK and in across the world. Research has highlighted the prevalence of disordered eating among South Asian females. However little is known about the process of how this comes about, and little qualitative research has been conducted in this area. This research aimed to understand the issues relating to the development and maintenance of eating disorders among South Asian females and their help seeking behavior, as well as the barriers to accessing treatment. Methods: Three main studies were carried out; two systematic reviews, a review of prevalence (study 1), a qualitative review (study 2) and a qualitative study (study 3). For study 1, the review was planned and reported with reference to MOOSE guidelines (Stroup et al 2000) for systematic reviews of observational studies. For study 2, the quality of the studies was appraised in accordance with Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Criteria (CASP 2013), qualitative research check list. For both reviews, a systematic literature search was conducted across four data basis, Psychinfo, Medline, CINAL and EMBASE. All articles were screened against inclusion/exclusion criteria. The data extracted from the selected studies was tabulated in a way that demonstrated the methodological robustness and cultural quality of each study was also reported. For the qualitative study (study 3), semi-structured interviews were carried out with three groups of participants, ten South Asian females with eating disorders, seven parents and siblings and eighteen health care professionals. Results: For study 1, thirteen studies were initially selected. Overall, these studies reported higher prevalence of Bulimia among Asian females in the UK compared to Caucasian females. Studies conducted in Pakistan and India reported a lower prevalence rate of diagnosable eating disorders than reported in Western countries. In study 2, three studies were selected. They identified important themes; cultural conflict and controlling families. In study 3, two overarching themes were identified with corresponding sub-themes; development and maintenance of eating disorders in the context of family and cultural conflict; barriers and facilitators to accessing treatment. Conclusions: Reviewed prevalence study findings highlighted a need to consider the adaptation of measuring tools, as eating disorders may present differently in different cultures, and diagnostic criteria based on Western norms may not always be appropriate. There was a lack of qualitative studies and those available were of poor quality. The main aetiology and maintenance of Eating Disorders reported by South Asian females were focused on conflict with family and culture. Seeking treatment was difficult for these women due to stigma, shame, issues of confidentiality and lack of training and understanding in cultural competence among health care professionals.
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Weingarten, Jutta Karen [Verfasser]. "Narrating generations: representations of generationality and genealogy in contemporary British Asian narratives / Jutta Karen Weingarten." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1068591889/34.
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Khan, Naila Akhtar. "An investigation into second generation British South Asian Muslim women's perceptions and experiences of counselling." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2009. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/20397/.
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This study seeks to explore British South Asian Muslim women's perceptions and experiences of counselling. The literature search of contemporary research has identified that there is a high prevalence of mental health problems among British South Asian women (Chew-Graham et at 2002; Hussain & Cochrane 2002 and 2004), and yet, a large proportion of the South Asian community does not receive appropriate support and care when experiencing mental health problems (Hatfield, Mohamad, Rahim & Tanweer 1996; Bowl 2007). Mental health professionals have also expressed concern regarding the provision of mental health services for South Asian people in the UK (Acharyya, Moorhouse, Kareem & Littlewood 1989). This might indicate that counselling is either not offered, there is a lack of knowledge regarding counselling or that there is a deficit in the counselling support when it is offered. The aim of this study is to investigate second generation British-born South Asian Muslim women's perceptions and experiences of counselling by acquiring an understanding of British South Asian Muslim women's levels of awareness of counselling as a treatment option and exploring whether counselling is beneficial for British-born South Asian Muslim women. A qualitative study was conducted which consisted of thirty questionnaires and four interviews. The data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis from an interpretive and social constructionist perspective. The majority of the participants in this study found counselling to be beneficial. Overall the women's accounts indicated that a general cultural competence was a necessary factor in a successful counselling process. Thus, the findings imply that counsellors need good generic skills of cultural competence rather than specific cultural knowledge.
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Gone, Rupa. "Illness representations, coping, depression and anxiety in South Asian and British people with inflammatory arthritis." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413835.
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Atkinson, Matthew W. "A study of the representation of 'Muslim' and 'Asian' identities in the British national press." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574253.
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It has long been argued that Islam has been covered in the 'western' media in oppositional terms - with events such as 9/11 playing a pivotal role in this. In the British context, a form of stereotyping also exists which ensures that people of South Asian ethnicities (specifically Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian ethnicities) are also included in this process. Misunderstanding between different ethnic 'groups' of citizens in the UK is an important issue, and in 2001 led to violence in a number of towns / and ci!ies.This thesis provides an original contribution to knowledge through a mixed-methods analysis of three case-studies based on UK national press content, and considers the way in which the 'groups' identified above are covered. The three cases - The Satanic Verses incident (1989), Bradford Riots (2001), and Gillian Gibbons incident (2007) - are chosen because their varying characteristics enable some telling comparisons of similarity and difference. The study finds a dearth of 'ordinary' voices from within the groups noted above in British press coverage, with a heavy reliance on the voices of religious and community 'leaders' instead. This was true in cases where minority voices tended to be dissenting (1989, 2001), as well as where they were more supportive of the status quo (2007). While events such as 9/11 and 7/7 undoubtedly had an effect on coverage of British Muslims and people of South Asian ethnicities - meaning that already negative coverage was exaggerated - this study concludes that this effect may not have been as great as previously thought outside of the specific context of terrorism. This is evidenced by coverage sampled concerning the 2007 Gibbons incident.
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Hayer, Tajinder S. "Opening up the post-apocalyptic genre to previously absent British Asian narratives through creative writing." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2017. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/703598/.
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This submission consists of a post-apocalyptic play, North Country, and accompanying critical commentary. The creative work explores the city of Bradford and British Asian themes within a science fictional context. As a piece of writing, North Country is significant in terms of its subject matter and approach to genre; there is a notable shortage of British Asian writing and characters within a science fictional context (and a near absence when it comes to the post-apocalyptic genre, in particular). The critical commentary investigates six subject areas relating to the play: 1) the ways that the post-apocalyptic genre can be used to reframe British Asian tropes and aspects of wider British identity; 2) the ways that science fiction and British Asian strategies in dialect, naming and language choice can be used as generative tools; 3) the ways that psychogeographic research methodologies can be applied to playwriting; 4) the ways that such work can explore and represent the geographical and cultural specificity of Bradford; 5) the ways that the post-apocalyptic genre can be used to re-imagine Bradford, natural/urban space and notions of home; 6) the possible interpretations of the script in production and my own role as playwright in the production process. The play addresses the first of these subjects by using the post-apocalyptic genre as a tool of estrangement; it does reframe the familiar tropes of British Asian identity (predominantly narratives that focus on tensions regarding cultural change and continuity), and uses the apocalyptic rupture to also reapply these tropes to ‘indigenous’ Bradfordian, regional and national identities. The play’s subject matter places it is as an outlier within the contexts of British Asian theatre and science fiction. However, I demonstrate in the critical thesis that North Country is in dialogue with the traditions of both these fields. In particular, the thesis syntheses science fictional and British Asian approaches to ‘new’ and ‘unfamiliar’ languages and worlds; it illustrates the mutual strategies applied to world-building in both, but also outlines the tensions that come when dealing with ‘exotic’ language use. The geographical and cultural specificity of the play was generated through a psychogeographic research approach; the city of Bradford was investigated through a documented process of wandering on foot. This strategy for writing was informed by my autobiographical experiences and by a theoretical framework arising from my research into psychogeography. This approach created new information about the city of Bradford in the form of my prose psychogeographic account (subsumed in to chapter one of the thesis); it also created the play. I believe the documentation and explanation of this process constitutes a meaningful reflection on creative practice. I also document the various performances of the play at the following: the Arcola iii Playwrought New Writing Festival in 2015; Anglia Ruskin’s Covent Garden Studio in 2015; Eastercon in 2016; and a fully-staged production run in Bradford in 2016. These productions allowed me to reflect on my own status as ‘playwright in the rehearsal room’ and compare different interpretations of the script in different contexts.
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Hayer, Tajinder S. "Opening up the post-apocalyptic genre to previously absent British Asian narratives through creative writing." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2017. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/703598/1/Hayer_2017.pdf.
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This submission consists of a post-apocalyptic play, North Country, and accompanying critical commentary. The creative work explores the city of Bradford and British Asian themes within a science fictional context. As a piece of writing, North Country is significant in terms of its subject matter and approach to genre; there is a notable shortage of British Asian writing and characters within a science fictional context (and a near absence when it comes to the post-apocalyptic genre, in particular).
The critical commentary investigates six subject areas relating to the play: 1) the ways that the post-apocalyptic genre can be used to reframe British Asian tropes and aspects of wider British identity; 2) the ways that science fiction and British Asian strategies in dialect, naming and language choice can be used as generative tools; 3) the ways that psychogeographic research methodologies can be applied to playwriting; 4) the ways that such work can explore and represent the geographical and cultural specificity of Bradford; 5) the ways that the post-apocalyptic genre can be used to re-imagine Bradford, natural/urban space and notions of home; 6) the possible interpretations of the script in production and my own role as playwright in the production process.
The play addresses the first of these subjects by using the post-apocalyptic genre as a tool of estrangement; it does reframe the familiar tropes of British Asian identity (predominantly narratives that focus on tensions regarding cultural change and continuity), and uses the apocalyptic rupture to also reapply these tropes to ‘indigenous’ Bradfordian, regional and national identities. The play’s subject matter places it is as an outlier within the contexts of British Asian theatre and science fiction. However, I demonstrate in the critical thesis that North Country is in dialogue with the traditions of both these fields. In particular, the thesis syntheses science fictional and British Asian approaches to ‘new’ and ‘unfamiliar’ languages and worlds; it illustrates the mutual strategies applied to world-building in both, but also outlines the tensions that come when dealing with ‘exotic’ language use.
The geographical and cultural specificity of the play was generated through a psychogeographic research approach; the city of Bradford was investigated through a documented process of wandering on foot. This strategy for writing was informed by my autobiographical experiences and by a theoretical framework arising from my research into psychogeography. This approach created new information about the city of Bradford in the form of my prose psychogeographic account (subsumed in to chapter one of the thesis); it also created the play. I believe the documentation and explanation of this process constitutes a meaningful reflection on creative practice. I also document the various performances of the play at the following: the Arcola
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Brar, Mandip. "An exploration of the experiences of never married British South Asian females in the UK." Thesis, University of East London, 2012. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1878/.
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Aims: There has been much interest in investigating the culture-specific factors affecting the psychological well-being of South Asian women, particularly women who have emigrated from the Asian sub-continent to the US and UK. The academic literature in this area supports a link between ‘culture-conflict’, acculturation, familial and marriage difficulties and the high rates of self-harm and suicide amongst this group when compared with their white counterparts. However, less is known about [1] British born South Asian women and [2] unmarried South Asian women within a culture where heterosexual marriage is so highly valued and promoted and the impact this has on their psychological well-being. The current study aimed to explore the experiences of never married British South Asian women living in the UK and the benefits and challenges of being single and contending with self-reported pressure to get married. The specific aims of the study were to gain an in-depth understanding in the following areas; [1] to examine the experience of single British South Asian females who are under pressure from their families to get married, [2] to elicit an understanding of any distress to the individual attributed by them to this pressure and the impact on their mental well-being and [3] to gain an understanding of the strain this puts on family relationships. Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven women who self-reported pressure (external/internal) to get married. Verbatim transcripts were then analysed using Interpretative Phenomenology Analysis (IPA). Findings: The analysis produced three master themes. These were: [1] Negotiating collectivism versus individualism, [2] Experiencing psychological distress and [3] Exercising contested power. A description of the master themes and the related subordinate themes and detailed analysis using excerpts from the transcripts is presented. Conclusion: The findings from the analysis are considered in light of no existing academic research in this area and wider research on psychological well-being. Clinical implications and tentative recommendations are presented based on the study’s findings for clinical practice.
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Sweeney, Ellen Elizabeth. "Partition and its legacies: a cross-cultural comparison of Irish, British and South Asian cinemas." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2016.
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In this dissertation, I will explore how 1990s and 2000s British, Irish and South Asian historical films represented the violent legacy of partition on the island of Ireland and in South Asia, respectively. I contend that a cross-regional and cross-national examination of the relationships between national memory, national cinema and minority will reveal that partition had a similar effect on Irish, South Asian and Northern Irish societies: the alignment of a normative national identity with a particular religious identity. This study will explore how key Irish, British and South Asian cinematic texts, despite being produced in disparate production contexts, similarly represent the brutal marginalization of gendered and religious minorities as a central legacy of partition.
In my engagement with these films, I have two central areas of exploration. The first is how these films challenge state or majoritarian histories by presenting themselves as historical texts that correct the historical record. I will show how state histories (Michael Collins), majoritarian narratives (Hey!Ram), repressed gendered minority histories (Khamosh Pani, The Magdalene Sisters) and post-conflict narratives (Five Minutes of Heaven and Fiza) contest majoritarian or colonial histories.
The second, and ancillary, area of exploration is how the international trauma film genre influences the films' respective representations of atrocity. I argue that trauma theory can help us understand minorities' relationship to the state and the ongoing impact of particular historical events on community and nation. To ground my comparative analysis, I draw from postcolonial theory, poststructuralism and trauma theory. In conclusion, I will contend that these films' minority figures remind us of the dangers of nationalism's limited imaginative boundaries and the role that cinema plays in helping us to think beyond its limitations.
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Cuevas, Susanne. "Babylon and golden city representations of London in black and Asian British novels since the 1990s." Heidelberg Winter, 2007. http://d-nb.info/987385399/04.
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Hilario, Carla Theresa. "Gender, acculturation, and protective factors in the mental health of Southeast Asian youth in British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43476.
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Purpose: There is a substantial gap in research that examines mental health in immigrant and visible minority groups. Even less research has considered the link between acculturation, mental health, and protective factors among these adolescents. This study investigated gender and acculturation-related differences in mental health and identified protective factors that buffer against emotional distress among Southeast Asian youth in British Columbia. Methods: A secondary analysis was conducted using data from the 2008 BC Adolescent Health Survey. Measures included mental health (recent stress, despair, self-harm, suicide, and self-esteem); acculturation (foreign-born status, length of time in Canada, and language spoken at home); and theorized protective factors (family connectedness, school connectedness, and ethnic identity connectedness). Gender differences in level of protective factors were examined using general linear modeling and age-adjusted multivariate models predicting extreme stress and extreme despair were conducted separately by gender and included acculturation measures as well as protective factors. Results: Southeast Asian girls reported significantly higher rates of mental health issues than boys including self-harm activity, suicidal intent, and attempted suicide. In addition, significantly greater numbers of Southeast Asian girls experienced extreme levels of stress and despair. In bivariate testing, acculturation was not significantly related to mental health. However, in the multivariate models, boys and girls who had lived in Canada for less than 5 years were more likely to report extreme levels of despair; girls in Canada for less than 10 years were also more likely to report extreme despair as well as extreme stress. Significant protective factors for boys and girls were family connectedness for both stress and despair as well as school connectedness but only among girls. Higher levels of ethnic identity connectedness were associated with lower odds of despair among boys but higher odds of stress among girls. Discussion and Implications: Immigrant teens may be at higher risk for emotional distress, yet gender differences still exist in the mental health of Southeast Asian youth. Future research must account for gender and acculturation-related differences in mental health and to assess for protective factors that may help mitigate the negative effects of stressors on adolescent mental health.
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Laursen, Ole Birk. "Black and Asian British life writing : race, gender and representation in selected novels from the 1990s." Thesis, Open University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578659.
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This thesis explores six post-1990s black and Asian British women novelists and the ways in which they utilise life writing strategies in their novels. Using a comparative approach, it explores how their novels are informed by issues of diaspora, hybridity and cultural identity, and how these questions are implicitly linked to the autobiographical nature of their novels. Attention is paid to how these novelists represent their individual subjective identities and how their particular experiences are linked to the narrative structures of their novels. My contention is that these novelists employ autobiographical strategies in their novels to challenge in fictional form the dominant discourses of race, gender and cultural identity, and that such strategies allow these authors to re-imagine and re-assert their subjectivities in fiction. As a frame for my analysis, I focus on three themes - the politics of location, the notion of trauma and the narration of family - and examine how these six novelists utilise autobiographical strategies in order to explore these issues. This approach allows me to both identify some key characteristics which are common to black and Asian British women's life writing as well as highlight differences which point to the diversity of this body of literature. My theoretical framework draws heavily on, first, feminist and postcolonial theorists and critics of autobiography and life writing and, second, black British cultural theorists and critics. Throughout the thesis, I interrogate the limitations of existing feminist and postcolonial autobiography and life writing theories when applied in this context, and address concerns over certain aspects of existing black British cultural theory.
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Rana, Baljit Kaur. "Combing work and family : the experiences of British South Asian women, men and dual-career couples." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297969.
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