Overview
- Explores how middle-class British-Pakistani women navigate life in Britain differently from their counterparts in the working class
- Interrogates the intersection of race, class, religion, and gender from an ethnographic perspective
- Sheds light on how aspirations and interested are governed by social class position, and how socio-economic mobility can define the meaning and experience of being British-Pakistani
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About this book
This ethnographic study of middle-class British-Pakistani women in Manchester explores the sense of belonging they create through recognition and social status. Belonging in these communities is enacted through the performance of different identities—class, ethnicity, nationality, generation, age, religion, and gender—that earn them social power and status among family and friends. To prove they are “model migrants,” worthy of respect and recognition, these women perform various and intersecting identities to maximize status and social capital in diverse situations. Far from being passive victims of racial, religious, or cultural discrimination, middle-class British-Pakistani women challenge prejudice against Muslims and British-Pakistanis through certain practices, objects, performances, and relationships, serving as ambassadors for their religious and ethnic identity through their conduct and interaction with others in daily life.
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Noreen Mirza received her PhD in Social Anthropology from University of Manchester, UK, in 2017, where she is currently a teaching assistant in the School of Social Sciences and at the Alliance Manchester Business School.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Navigating the Everyday as Middle-Class British-Pakistani Women
Book Subtitle: Ethnicity, Identity and Belonging
Authors: Noreen Mirza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49312-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49311-0Published: 25 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49314-1Published: 25 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49312-7Published: 24 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 239
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Religion