Strangers, Aliens and Asians: Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields, 1660-2000 (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- For centuries Spitalfields in East London has been a first point of settlement for new immigrants to Britain. Proximate to the affluence of the City of London and the poverty of what is now the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Spitalfields has been, and still is, an area ‘on the edge’. This book examines the settlement, integration and assimilation processes undergone by three different immigrant groups over a period of almost 350 years, assessing the relative successes and failures. The groups looked at are the French Huguenots who arrived in significant numbers in the closing decades of the seventeenth century; Eastern European Jews coming from the Russian Empire in the last third of the nineteenth century; and Bangladeshis whose large-scale settlement began in the late 1950s. Strangers, Aliens and Asians sets out to investigate at grass-roots level the migrant experience and the processes by which the outsider may become the insider. The book explores the dynamics which drive the processes of immigrant settlement and assimilation and looks at whether these are solely the outcome of the temporal setting, cultural background and the contemporaneous socio-economic and political conditions, or whether there are factors which, irrespective of the prevailing environment, are constant features in the symbiosis between the outsider and the insider. The central themes under discussion include the reconstruction of home in an alien environment; migrant religiosity in an alien society; the role of the mother tongue in the assimilation process; and the expressions of xenophobia, anti-alienism and racism that emerged over the centuries in Spitalfields.
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9780714655253
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780415515429
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Date of Addition:
- 11/23/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Anne J. Kershen
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Taylor and Francis VIP Team
- Proofread By:
- Taylor and Francis VIP Team
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.