Şimşek, Doğuş;
(2024)
‘Am I Less British?’: Racism, belonging, and the children of refugees and immigrants in North London.
[Book].
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UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
‘Am I Less British?’ focuses on the children of refugees and immigrants in North London, whose parents migrated from Turkey. Providing a rich ethnography of the lives of the children, the book studies their sense of identity, belonging and their transnational experiences. It aims to understand how the children position themselves within a range of locations (London, North London and Turkey), where they face class hierarchy, racism and discrimination, and explores how they think about their sense of belonging within the contemporary political context in Britain and Turkey. De-identifying themselves from national identities and holding onto the oppressed identities appear as new forms of resistance in response to racism and exclusion. The experiences of the young people reflect the complexity of their lives in changing political and social circumstances across the borders of nation-states, and the importance of other categories of identity, including local identities. Overall, the book argues that the intersections of local, national and transnational approaches, the political context through which the lives of young people are framed, and their sophisticated engagement with ideas of race, class, ethnicity and gender, are crucial in understanding their identity formation.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘Am I Less British?’: Racism, belonging, and the children of refugees and immigrants in North London |
| ISBN: | 9781787351776 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787351776 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787351776 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787351776 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC 4.0), https://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non- commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Şimşek, D., 2024. ‘Am I Less British?’: Racism, belonging and the children of refugees and immigrants in north London. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787351776 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | London, migration, Turkey, sociology, identity, belonging, racism, politics, political science, immigration |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184675 |
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