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Record Nr.

UNINA9910847081503321

Autore

Saini Rima

Titolo

Politics, Identity and Belonging Across The British South Asian Middle Classes : Between Privilege and Prejudice / / by Rima Saini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031547874

303154787X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series, , 2947-6119

Disciplina

305.8914041

Soggetti

Political sociology

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Islam and the social sciences

Islamic sociology

Middle East - Politics and government

Political Sociology

Sociology of Migration

Social Scientific Studies of Islam

Middle Eastern Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Class, ‘Race’ and the British South Asian Diaspora -- Chapter 3: British South Asian Middle Class Formation: Between Privilege and Prejudice -- Chapter 4: Social Identity Frameworks of the British South Asian Middle Classes -- Chapter 5: British South Asian Middle Class Politics -- Chapter 6: British South Asian Political Conservatisms: The ‘Brown Tory’ -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book will discuss the growing socio-economic and political diversity of the groups that comprise the British South Asian diaspora, with a focus on the formation of the British South Asian "middle classes". They will be framed within this work as a heterogenous sub-population, but this book is be the first comprehensive effort to define them sociologically as a distinct ethnoracial collective with a unique



political profile. It does this with reference to secondary statistical data and primary interview data, and engages with relevant academic and non-academic literature. It describes the ways in which socially mobile South Asian migrants and particularly their descendants in the UK relate to their racial, ethnic, religious, classed and gendered identities, their relationship with ‘Britishness’, and their politics. It will therefore be of interest to students and researchers of political sociology, particularly those specialising in race, processes of racism and racialisation, ethnic and ethno-religious identity, class and social mobility amongst ethnic minority groups, and the interaction between minority identity and political identity. Rima Saini is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Middlesex University London, UK.