Barber Oriental Identities in Super-Diverse Britain

Young Vietnamese in London
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-27519-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 263 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences

Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic 'Oriental' category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in Britain.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barber, T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The British Vietnamese Diaspora 2. Orientalism, Counter-Orientalism and Identity in Multicultural Britain 3. 'Is it because I am Yellow?': Categorization and Difference among the 'Second Generation' in Britain 4. Black-British, White-British, Oriental-British? 5. Counter-Orientalisms and the Politics of Hair, Clubbing and Dating 6. Navigating 'The Vietnamese Community': Local and Transnational Belongings 7. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Tamsin Barber is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.