Postcolonial Citizens
Autor Fatima Rajina, Naaz Rashid, Victoria Redcliften Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2026
An innovative, ethically grounded study of Bangladeshi diasporic communities in London and Los Angeles.
According to the International Organization for Migration, the Bangladeshi diaspora is one of the world's largest with around 2.4 million members, and the United Kingdom and the United States are two of the primary countries of settlement. Postcolonial Citizenship examines the experiences of different generations of Muslim Bangladeshi migrants in London and Los Angeles. Although narratives of globalization suggest increasing homogeneity, this book shows how the Bangladeshi diaspora experience has been shaped by their cities of settlement. We examine how the context of reception influences experiences of citizenship. Crucial to this analysis is the concept of "racial regimes" developed by Cedric Robinson and Alana Lentin, which demonstrates how "race" and racial hierarchies are (re)produced in different historical and geographical contexts and how they evolve over time.
Since 9/11, the transnational practices of diasporic Muslims have received significant negative attention, as both security threats and impediments to citizenship. Postcolonial Citizenship unpacks the mutually constitutive relationship between citizenship and transnationalism by focusing on three transnational domains of remittances--religion and investment--in relation to Bangladesh-origin migrants in the US and the UK. It is a tale of two cities separated by the Atlantic, and by the respective, albeit interconnected, histories of colonialism and settler colonialism, but which remain intimately interlinked in the current conjuncture.
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ISBN-10: 1806552205
Dimensiuni: 147 x 230 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Notă biografică
Victoria Redclift is an associate professor of political sociology at University College London (UCL). Her first book Statelessness and Citizenship: Camps and the Creation of "Political Space" was shortlisted for the British Sociological Society Phillip Abrams Memorial Prize. Her work has been funded by UK Research and Innovation, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research. She has worked at the London School of Economics, the University of Manchester, and the University of Surrey, and joined UCL in 2018. Fatima Rajina has been a Senior Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University, UK, since September 2020. Upon completing her PhD, she published the monograph British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language. She has worked at SOAS University of London, University of Surrey, University of Cambridge, Kingston University London, and UCL. Naaz Rashid is a research associate at the Sussex Centre of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, where she was previously an associate professor in media and cultural studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. She is the author of Veiled Threats: Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses and has written extensively about changing representations of Muslim women in the UK's counterterrorism agenda. She has written for The Guardian, the New Statesman, and Open Democracy.