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2. ‘For her protection and benefit’: the regulation of marriage-related migration to the UK.
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Carver, Natasha
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MARRIAGE policy ,MARRIAGE ,EUROPE-Great Britain relations ,ETHNICITY & society ,GENDER & society ,EUROPEAN Union country emigration & immigration ,IMMIGRATION status ,HISTORY ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
This paper argues that a two-tier system has evolved dividing intra-UK/EU marriages from extra-UK/EU marriages. For the former, marriage is a contract between two individuals overseen by a facilitating state. For the latter, marriage has become more of a legal status defined and controlled by an intrusive and obstructive state. I argue that this divergence in legislating regulation is steeped in an ethnicized imagining of ‘Britishness’ whereby the more noticeably ‘other’ migrants (by skin colour or religion) are perceived as a threat to the national character. The conceptualization of women as legally ‘disabled’ citizens (1870 Naturalisation Act) for whom a state must act as responsible patriarch, is a fundamental part of this imagining of the nation. The paper therefore examines the social (gendered and ethnicized) assumptions and political aims embedded within the legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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3. Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England.
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Parks, Judith and Askins, Kye
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ETHNICITY & society ,ETHNICITY ,COMMUNITIES ,NARRATIVES -- Social aspects ,SOCIAL services ,SOCIAL constructionism ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,MINORITIES ,CULTURAL pluralism ,ETHNIC differences ,SOCIAL history ,TWENTY-first century - Abstract
The increasing ethnic diversity of the UK has been mirrored by growing public awareness of multicultural issues, alongside developments in academic and government thinking. This paper explores the contested meanings around ethnic identity/ies in community settings, drawing on semi-structured interviews with staff from Children's Centres and allied agencies conducted for a research project that examined the relationship between identity and the participation of parents/carers in services in northeast England. The research found that respondents were unclear about, especially, white ethnic identities, and commonly referred to other social categorizations, such as age, nationality, and circumstances such as mobility, when discussing service users. While in some cases this may have reflected legitimate attempts to resist over-ethnicizing non-ethnic phenomena, such constructions coexisted with assumptions about ethnic difference and how it might translate into service needs. These findings raise important considerations for policy and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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4. Neville Laski, Anglo-Jewry and the crises of the 1930s.
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Tilles, Daniel
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JEWS ,FASCISM ,ANTISEMITISM ,HISTORY of antisemitism ,ACTIONS & defenses (Law) ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
Neville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1932 to 1939, led Anglo-Jewry through the most challenging period in its modern history. Internally, the community was deeply divided, with half a century of mass immigration placing great strain on its pre-existing structures and institutions, and particularly the traditional elites who controlled them. Externally, it faced the unprecedented threat of an emerging domestic fascist movement, while also dealing with the consequences of growing antisemitic persecution in continental Europe. Despite playing a leading role in responding to these developments, Laski has received remarkably little attention from historians. Where he has, the consensus is that he failed to rise to the challenges of the 1930s, acting as an impediment to internal reform and remaining complacent and ineffective in his response to antisemitism. Drawing on a range of contemporary sources, Tilles's article offers a comprehensive reassessment of Laski's role. It argues that he acted as a transitional figure between the rule of the old, anglicized elites and the new immigrant community, seeking to balance the demands of competing factions. Meanwhile, his defence policy against antisemitism was not only active and effective, but eventually saw all major sections of Anglo-Jewry unite behind his leadership in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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5. The ‘metropolis of dissent’: Muslim participation in Leicester and the ‘failure’ of multiculturalism in Britain.
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Jones, Stephen H.
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MUSLIMS ,MULTICULTURALISM ,MINORITIES ,COMMUNITIES ,RELIGIOUS diversity ,POLITICAL participation ,HISTORY ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,RELIGION ,POLITICAL science ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
Focusing on Muslim participation in the governance of Leicester in the East Midlands of England, this article contests prevalent assumptions about the contemporary politics of multiculturalism. Specifically, it questions two narratives on the subject: first, a descriptive narrative about multiculturalism being in retreat; and second, a normative narrative about multiculturalism undermining national culture. Using interview, ethnographic and archival research, the article shows how a programme of multicultural politics has been implemented in Leicester that, while shifting, has remained firmly in place across national political and policy changes. It also demonstrates how this model of multicultural practice has emphasized civic communitarianism and utilized British national traditions. Using the above methods, the article questions the terms of political debate about multiculturalism, and considers how ‘convivial’ and ‘communitarian’ theoretical approaches to multiculturalism can renew and refashion multicultural political practice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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