A01=Suriyah Bi
Author_Suriyah Bi
British Pakistanis
Category=JHMC
citizenship
colonialism
domestic violence
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gender
immigration
intersectionality
Islam
liminality
male migrants
masculinity
oppression
Pakistani
patriarchy
race
racism
social anthropology
South Asian
South Asian diaspora
sufism
transnational
transnational marriage
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9781526181329
- Weight: 471g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this eye-opening ethnography, we learn about the experiences of Muslim migrant husbands from Pakistan and Kashmir, who marry their British counterparts in the hope of marital and global social mobility bliss. For many, the parallel and intertwined migration and marital journeys do not pan out in the way they had hoped. Many experience precarity and vulnerability within the household and/or in employment, with some even being subjected to harrowing forms of domestic violence. Migrant husbands navigate an increasingly hostile British immigration system not only in public but also in private, at the hands of their wives and in-laws. The ethnography demonstrates how citizenship can be deployed as a performance of white power within single group identity, differentiated through colonial legacies of ‘Britishness’.
Suriyah Bi is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cardiff
