Research project
Writing British Asian Cities
- Start date: 2006
- End date: 2009
- Funder: AHRC Diasporas, Migrations and Identities Programme
Description
The diverse local character and trajectories of South Asian diasporas in Britain today is the product mainly of post-war immigration from particular parts of India, modern Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as East Africa. Recognising that there is now an urgent need to reflect upon this presence, this website is the first to explore the changing historical and spatial dynamics of five British-Asian cities.
Funded by the AHRC Diasporas, Migrations and Identities Programme between 2006 and 2009, a network of academics and non-academics set out to examine how each city has been ‘written’ and represented by different constituencies in scholarship, oral history, novels and other forms of cultural production, as well as in the media and official reports.
Steering group
Dr Sean McLoughlin
Dr Ananya Kabir
Dr William Gould
Dr Emma Tomalin
Dr Pippa Virdee
Professor John Eade
Dr John Zavos
Dr Virinder Kalra
Dr. Richard Gale
Dr Shailaja Fennel
Aki Nawaz
Irna Qureshi
Robbie Beattie
Jasjit Singh