04206nam 2200685 450 991081682900332120230207213816.01-282-88180-997866128818000-85771-108-31-4416-7950-2600-00-4379-1(CKB)2670000000047702(EBL)676773(OCoLC)710975679(SSID)ssj0000413206(PQKBManifestationID)12121384(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413206(PQKBWorkID)10369740(PQKB)11232844(MiAaPQ)EBC676773(Au-PeEL)EBL676773(CaONFJC)MIL288180(EXLCZ)99267000000004770220151029d2010 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBritain's first Muslims portrait of an Arab community /Fred HallidayNew paperback edition.London :I.B. Tauris,2010.1 online resource (200 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84885-299-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface to the Second Edition: the Creation of 'Muslim' Britain; Introduction; 1. Yemeni Migration and its Contexts; Arab Migration: An Overview; Immigrants in Britain; The Yemeni Background; 'The Disaster of the Twentieth Century'; 2. The First Yemeni Migration: The Ports; Cardiff: Tiger Bay and Bilad al-Welsh; The 1919 Riots; Sheikh Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi; Cardiff in the 1970s; South Shields: The Mill Dam Riots and Beyond; Liverpool: On 'The Street of the Yemenis'; 3. Yemenis in Industrial Cities: The Pattern of the 1970s; An Immigrant Minority; The Postwar InfluxIndustrial EmploymentA 'Yemeni' Factory; Housing and Social Conditions; Women: Absent and Present; Social Problems: Al-Tax and Haqq al-Qahwa; Anxieties of the Mid 1970s: Racism and Economic Depression; 4. A Yemeni Workers' Organization; Nationalist Movements and Immigrant Activity; The Emergence of Political Organizations; Function and Structure of the YWU; Union Activities; A Political Orientation; 5. A Community in Transition: The Yemenis in the 1980s; Factors for Change: British and Yemeni; A Community Revitalized: The Case of Sheffield; South Shields: Beyond the RecessionIn the Shadow of the Tower: The Yemenis in LondonUnwelcome Attentions: 'Killer Drug' and 'Brides for Sale'; The 'Invisible' Arab; Yemenis and South Asians: Characteristics Shared; The Islamic Dimension; The Distinctiveness of the Yemenis; Appendices 1. Correspondence concerning the building of mosques in Cardiff and South Shields, 1938-9; Appendices 2. Sheffield Yemeni Welfare Advice Centre Constitution, 1985; Notes; Bibliography; IndexFear of the terrorist threat provoked by radical Islam has generated heated debates on multiculturalism and the integration of Muslim migrant communities in to Britain. Yet little is known about Britain's first Muslims, the Yemenis. Yemenis began settling in British port towns at the beginning of the 20th century, and afterwards became part of the immigrant labour force in Britain's industrial cities. Fred Halliday's ground-breaking research, based in Yemen and Britain, provides a fascinating case study for understanding the dynamics of immigrant cultures and the complexities of 'Muslim' idenYemenisGreat BritainHistoryMuslimsGreat BritainHistoryYemenisGreat BritainSocial conditionsMuslimsGreat BritainSocial conditionsGreat BritainEthnic relationsHistoryYemenisHistory.MuslimsHistory.YemenisSocial conditions.MuslimsSocial conditions.305.6970941Halliday Fred250441Halliday Fred250441MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816829003321Britain's first Muslims4084610UNINA