New Ethnicities and Language Use

by Roxy Harris

Book Overview

The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized as dominant voices both inside and outside their communities, seeking to foreground and hold in place alternative positionings of them as primarily Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims or Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis or Panjabi, Gujarati, Hindi, and Urdu speakers. This ignores their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a Britishness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403998949
• ISBN13: 9781403998941
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"