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Diaspora youth and ancestral homeland : British Pakistani/Kashmiri youth visiting kin in Pakistan and Kashmir / by Gill Cressey

Cressey, Gill [Verfasser]

Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2006

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (viii, 221 pages)

Muslim minorities ; v. 5

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

90-474-1079-3 ; 978-90-474-1079-9 ; 1-281-40040-8 ; 978-1-281-40040-6

This book explores the relationships of thirty young people with their ancestral homeland, of Pakistan or Kashmir, and with British urban life. It does so using narratives from young people about their journeys from Birmingham in Britain to visit kin in villages in rural Pakistan and Kashmir. Its particular usefulness is the critique that its empirical data raises of 'conventional wisdom' of some governments, media, academic theorists and public bodies about Muslim Minorities.