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Abdul Bari
Abdul Wahed
Asiatic Sailors
Author_Katy Gardner
Bangladesh Biman
Bengali elders
Bengali Population
Bengali Settlement
Breathing Sound
Brick Lane
British Immigration Law
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diaspora identity formation
East London Mosque
elder Bengali migrant narratives
embodiment in migration studies
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gendered migration experiences
Home Office
Home Work
Low Income Black Households
Masculinity
Narrative devices
Pukka House
qualitative life history
Regent's Park Mosque
Regent’s Park Mosque
Rural Sylhet
Salman Rushdie Affair
Shah Jalal
South Asian elders UK
Sylhet Town
Tower Hamlets
transnational ageing
Transnational migration
UK Bodily
Vice Versa
Video Cassette Recorder
Women's histories
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859733134
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describes how many of these elders face the processes of ageing, sickness and finally death, in a country where they did not expect to stay and where they do not necessarily feel they belong. The ways in which they talk about and deal with this, and in particular, their ambivalence towards Britain and Bangladesh lies at the heart of the book. Centrally, the book is based around the men and womens life stories. In her analysis of these, Gardner shows how narratives play an important role in the formation of both collective and individual identity and are key domains for the articulation of gender and age. Underlying the stories that people tell, and sometimes hidden within their gaps and silences, are often other issues and concerns. Using particular idioms and narrative devices, the elders talk about the contradictions and disjunctions of transmigration, their relationship with and sometimes resistance to, the British State, and what they often present as the breakdown of traditional ways. In addition to this, the book shows that histories, stories and identity are not just narrated through words, but also through the body - an area rarely theorized in studies of migration.
Katy Gardner Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology,University of Sussex
