Recovering the history of Asian migration to Scotland

Dunlop, Anne; Miles, Robert

doi:10.1080/02619288.1990.9974733

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“…The history and development of Glasgow’s Muslim population are in many ways typical of the United Kingdom. Muslim men came in the late-19th and early-20th centuries as labourers, settled in port regions and tended not to stay long ( Dunlop and Miles, 1990 ; Maan, 2008 ). The pressures on employment in Britain after the Second World War and on lifestyle in south Asia after the partition of India meant more men migrated and stayed, eventually bringing family with them.…”

Section: Muslim Sources In Glasgowmentioning

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From voice to voices: identifying a plurality of Muslim sources in the news media

Munnik

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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This article identifies a qualitative change in the diversity of actors who represent Muslims in British news media. Hitherto, the literature discussing Muslims and the media has tended to characterize media organizations as institutions which portray Muslims in an essentialized, monolithic way. In contrast, I propose in this article that the process of representation is more complex, including greater agency and engaging a wider diversity of Muslims than the prevailing literature suggests. Sociological studies distinguish between official and unofficial sources who help determine the representations that journalists employ in their texts, and I apply this to Muslim communities in Glasgow. Using qualitative methods drawn from media production analysis, including participant-observation and ethnographic interviews, I identify a shift from a ‘gatekeeper’ model of representing the community to that of a plurality of sources, which reveals and insists on the diversity of Muslim communities and voices. I will show why a wider range of actors emerged to speak publicly, what differentiates them and how they position themselves as representatives of Muslims. This focus on producers and on source strategies brings fresh insights into a field dominated by content analysis and a ‘media-centric’ approach.

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Section: Muslim Sources In Glasgowmentioning

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From voice to voices: identifying a plurality of Muslim sources in the news media

Munnik

2017

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“…Migration to Scotland from the Indian subcontinent is documented from the 19th century (Dunlop & Miles 1990), but until the 1950s migrants were mostly young men, either studying in Scotland's universities or working as peddlers (Maan 1992:160). In 1947, when partition between India and Pakistan took place, the Punjab was divided between the two newly-formed states.…”

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Over the Top and Glamorous : The Meaning of the Marriage Meal Among Glasgow Punjabis

Bradby

2002

Food and Foodways

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Symbolic aspects of the exchange of food at celebratory meals are qualitatively explored, using material from interviews with young Glasgow Punjabi women and participant observation. The widely agreed criteria for the form and content of an acceptable wedding meal, as a critical case of a celebratory meal, are described-they must feature meat, and be rich and plentiful. This form of wedding meal is strictly sanctioned by considerations of honor and family reputation through the mechanism of gossip, but, nonetheless, there were ways in which the content of the meal reflected religious identity. The prospects of change to celebratory meals, and more broadly to the social network that administers prestige and family honor, are discussed.

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“…Glasgow Asians are overwhelmingly Punjabi, tracing their origins to the region of the Indian subcontinent that was partitioned between India and Pakistan. Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus are spatially integrated with one another and anti‐Asian racism (Dunlop and Miles 1990) may have forced Asians to dwell on the traditions they have in common (Bradby 2002b), contributing to the concentration of Asians in specific localities within the city.…”

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Watch out for the Aunties! Young British Asians’ accounts of identity and substance use

Bradby

2007

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper considers how young people able to trace their origins from Pakistan or India (henceforth 'Asians'), discuss their use of, or abstention from, alcohol and tobacco in terms of religious and cultural tradition. The role of religion, ethnicity, gender and generation in the uptake or avoidance of alcohol and tobacco was explored in 19 qualitative group and individual interviews with 47 Asians aged 16-26 years and analysed in terms of pioneering and conservative forms of tradition. Religious proscriptions on alcohol and tobacco were reported to be formally gender blind, but concerns about reputation and future marriage chances, sanctioned by gossip, meant that women's behaviour was consistently more constrained than men's. Muslims' abstinence from alcohol was tightly linked with an Islamic identity in that drinking jeopardised one's claim to being a Muslim, whereas cigarette smoking was tolerated among young men. Sikhs' and Hindus' avoidance of tobacco was strongly sanctioned, but smoking did not strongly jeopardise a religious identity. Sikh men's abstention indicated manly strength central to a devout identity. Some experimentation was possible out of view of the older generation, especially the aunties, but the risk of gossip damaging young women's reputations was keenly felt. While damage to women's reputations was hard to undo, men's reputations tarnished by substance use, could be compensated for by their parents' honourable status. Discussion of tradition as innovation was rare and met with resistance. Tradition was largely experienced as a constraint to be circumvented.

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Recovering the history of Asian migration to Scotland

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

From voice to voices: identifying a plurality of Muslim sources in the news media

From voice to voices: identifying a plurality of Muslim sources in the news media

Over the Top and Glamorous : The Meaning of the Marriage Meal Among Glasgow Punjabis

Watch out for the Aunties! Young British Asians’ accounts of identity and substance use

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