Parallel lives? Challenging discourses of British Muslim self-segregation
Parallel lives? Challenging discourses of British Muslim self-segregation
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10.1068/d60j
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发表时间：
2006-02-01
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3.8
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Phillips, D
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作者：
Phillips, D
2001年在布拉德福德、奥尔德姆和伯恩利发生的城市骚乱，突显了英国黑人和少数族裔居住隔离的有争议的意义。针对骚乱的官方报告突显了这些北方城市种族分裂的深度，有人声称，在这些城市，英国的亚裔和白人过着“一系列平行的生活”。这一论断的核心是这样一种说法，即南亚裔人，特别是英国穆斯林，通过退出与更广泛的英国社会的互动，未能成为积极的公民。本文考察了围绕英国穆斯林孤立主义和自我隔离的指控的话语，这些指控与市中心种族聚集的持续存在密切相关。这些争论基于对布拉德福德的巴基斯坦人/克什米尔人和孟加拉人的深入研究，并与关于英国人和白人的辩论有关。以及西方将英国穆斯林描绘成其他人。这些发现让英国穆斯林发出了声音，使我们能够批判性地审视空间种族主义所涉及的过程，并挑战英国穆斯林希望与其他人分开生活并脱离英国社会的观点。
The urban disturbances in Bradford, Oldham, and Burnley in 2001 served to underline the contested meanings of black and minority ethnic residential segregation in Britain. Official reports into the disturbances highlighted the depth of ethnic divisions in these northern cities, where, it was contended, British Asian and white people are living "a series of parallel lives". Central to this assertion is the claim that people of South Asian origin, particularly British Muslims, are failing to be active citizens by withdrawing from interactions with wider British society. This paper examines the discourses surrounding charges of British Muslim isolationism and self-segregation, which have been closely linked to the persistence of inner-city ethnic clustering. The arguments draw on in-depth research with people of Pakistani/Kashmiri and Bangladeshi origin in Bradford and connect to debates about Britishness, whiteness. and the Western portrayal of British Muslims as Other. The Findings give voice to British Muslims, enabling us to examine critically the processes involved in the racialisation of space and to challenge the view that British Muslims wish to live separately from others and disengage from British society.