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Politics, Identity and Belonging Across The British South Asian Middle Classes

Between Privilege and Prejudice

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Authors:
  1. Rima Saini

    1. Sociology Department, Middlesex University, St Albans, UK

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  • Develops our understanding of class and race formation amongst socially mobile British South groups in the UK
  • Expounds the idea of middle classness within a Diasporic context as an identity and a set of symbolic/material practices
  • Examines current understandings of ethnic minority conservatism in the UK and the elite ‘Brown Tory’

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Rima Saini
    Pages 1-18

  3. Class, ‘Race’ and the British South Asian Diaspora

    • Rima Saini
    Pages 19-41

  4. British South Asian Middle Class Formation: Between Privilege and Prejudice

    • Rima Saini
    Pages 43-62

  5. Social Identity Frameworks of the British South Asian Middle Classes

    • Rima Saini
    Pages 63-81

  6. British South Asian Middle Class Politics

    • Rima Saini
    Pages 83-103

  7. British South Asian Political Conservatisms: The Brown Tory

    • Rima Saini
    Pages 105-126

  8. Conclusion

    • Rima Saini
    Pages 127-129

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 131-137
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About this book

This book will discuss the growing socio-economic and political diversity of the groups that comprise the British South Asian diaspora, with a focus on the formation of the British South Asian "middle classes". They will be framed within this work as a heterogenous sub-population, but this book is be the first comprehensive effort to define them sociologically as a distinct ethnoracial collective with a unique political profile. It does this with reference to secondary statistical data and primary interview data, and engages with relevant academic and non-academic literature. It describes the ways in which socially mobile South Asian migrants and particularly their descendants in the UK relate to their racial, ethnic, religious, classed and gendered identities, their relationship with ‘Britishness’, and their politics. It will therefore be of interest to students and researchers of political sociology, particularly those specialising in  race, processes of racism and racialisation, ethnic and ethno-religious identity, class and social mobility amongst ethnic minority groups, and the interaction between minority identity and political identity.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sociology Department, Middlesex University, St Albans, UK

    Rima Saini

About the author

Rima Saini is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Middlesex, UK. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Politics, Identity and Belonging Across The British South Asian Middle Classes

  • Book Subtitle: Between Privilege and Prejudice

  • Authors: Rima Saini

  • Series Title: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54787-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54786-7Published: 29 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54787-4Published: 28 March 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2947-6100

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-6119

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 137

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Migration, Islam, Middle Eastern Politics

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