Roger Ballard
A collection of accounts of everyday life within a range of communities, such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Bangladeshi, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh. Taken together, they highlight common features and diversities in a variety of spheres, such as discrimination, religion and integration.
Roger Ballard
The rapid growth of Britain’s South Asian population during the second half of the twentieth century, such that it included nearly two million people by the turn of the millennium, is best understood as the most recent manifestation of a dynamic series of interconnections between the British Isles a...
List of figures List of maps List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Introduction: themes in the study of the South Asian diaspora Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec Part I. South Asians in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts: Introduction Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec ...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Abstract The informal funds transfer system found among South Asian migrant workers in general and Bangladeshi migrant workers in particular in the major labour-receiving countries of East and South-east Asia is popularly known as hundi. The hundi is informal but highly organized and founded on soci...
Roger Ballard
The presentation of a brief and generalized account of the major features of family organization in South Asian settlements in Britain poses many problems. Although lifestyles within such groups may seem quite distinctive to outsiders, there is a great deal of internal differentiation. migrants have...
Roger Ballard
Although our central concern in this book is to explore the way in which migrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have set about making themselves at home in Britain, it is well worth remembering that immigration itself is anything but an unprecedented phenomenon. Throughout its history Britain ...
Book reviewed in this article: HOMOSEXUALITY, QUEER THEORY, AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: THE LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES READER Edited by Henry Abe love, Michèle Aina Barale, and David M. Hampering HOMOSEXUALITY, QUEER THEORY, AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: FEMINISM MEETS QUEER THEORY: BOOKS FROM DIFFERENCES Edited...
Roger Ballard
The document contains a commentary on the wider issues of responsibility raised by the collapse of First Solution Money Transfer. This was a UK based private limited company which provided a money transfer service, providing expatriates the facilities to transfer money back to their family in Bangla...