Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood
Much recent academic work on making sense of the changing public profile of the Muslim community in Britain operates within an explanatory framework that assumes a shift from ethnicity to religion and an accompanying shift from racialization to Islamophobia. A key limitation of this work, often grou...
Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood
This article explores Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men’s experiences of schooling to examine what inclusion/exclusion means to them. Qualitative research was undertaken with 48 Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men living in areas of the West Midlands, England. The young men highlighted three key a...
Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood
Within a British context, the South Asian Muslim community is currently a significant media spectacle with a millennial generation of British-born young men inhabiting public personae that officially are perceived as being a ‘suspect community’. An epistemological assumption of this perception appea...
Maírtin Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood, Xiaodong Lin
This chapter reports on research carried out over the last few decades across the postcolonial city of Birmingham (UK), in which Irish (Catholic) and Pakistani and Bangladeshi (Muslim) migrants have been projected as ‘suspect communities’. This transnational urban space and more specifically ‘no-go’...
Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood
This chapter brings together the concepts of marginalised and masculinities to explore young Muslim men's experience of growing up in Britain. Within a British context, across theoretical, media and policy discourses, until recently, marginalisation was often associated with a vocabulary that was in...
Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood
Mac an Ghaill and Haywood explore late modern Muslim young men’s experiences of schooling to examine what inclusion/exclusion means to them. Qualitative research was undertaken with 48 Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men living in areas of the West Midlands, England. The young men highlighted three ...
In this paper we engage with the shifting understandings of inclusion and exclusion within schooling, in which Pakistani and Bangladeshi workingclass young men are currently experiencing intensified forms of monitoring and surveillance, as part of a ‘suspect community’ (Kundnani 2009; UK Government 2...