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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"British Asian"”.
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The evolution of British Asian radio in England: 1960-2004
This doctoral research examines the evolution of British Asian radio in England from 1960 to 2004. During the post-war period an Asian community started migrating to Britain to seek employment as a result of the industrial labour shortage. The BBC and the independent local radio sector tried to …
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Delivering a Public Service? The BBC Asian Network and British Asian audiences.
… minority ethnic producers employed by the BBC Asian Network, the BBC’s only ethnic specific digital radio station, construct a distinctive audience for the broadcaster. The study looks at the challenges, barriers and conflicts that have emerged as a consequence of BBC strategic attempts to make …
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Taking the strain: second generation British Asian Muslim Males and arranged marriage in London
This thesis considers how second generation British Asian Muslim males negotiate arranged marriage, religion and leisure, and how this negotiation is a means to achieve a culturally prescribed goal. The culturally prescribed goal will be demonstrated to be the attainment of wealth and the …
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Flipping between cultural worlds: a qualitative exploration of stigma experiences of British Asian people using an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service.
… stigma is also a pervasive issue within South Asian communities. It was recently found that second-generation minority groups are at increased risk of developing psychosis. Moreover, there is currently an under-representation of South-Asian people using mental health services in the UK. …
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A portfolio of research, professional practice and a critical literature review on psychological aspects of care in the context of acculturation and adaptation
… The purpose of the study was to understand British Asian Indian older adults’ experiences of multiple acculturation processes and family care receiving. Design: The study followed a qualitative research methodology. Analysis was undertaken using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis …
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Exploring the influence of Bollywood films on the identity of British second-generation South-Asian men
… the influence of the Indian film industry on British second-generation South-Asian men. In addition, it also explored how they related to their daily life, identity, culture, and relationships and whether there was any dual identity crisis. Seven, male, second generation participants, aged …
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Walking, talking and sensing community : lived experiences of a multi-ethnic neighbourhood
… relations in an urban locality shaped by white British and British Asian populations. Using field notes and walking interview data, rich and spatially-bound accounts of several local residents with differing backgrounds, heritages and perspectives are explored in-depth. In doing so, this …
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Sport Without Guarantees: Critical Pedagogy Against Empire
… studies ranging from the stylish hybridity of British Asian characters in the 2002 box-office hit Bend it Like Beckham and the eminent malleability of professional tennis player Martina Hingis's mediated subjectivity across trans/national boundaries to the corporate commodification of youth …
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The representation and consumption of 'Asian culture'
… on the representation and consumption of 'Asian culture' within a context of Western popular culture and specifically, 'British mainstream' and 'British Asian' magazine visual discourses. Through a critical engagement with Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) which charted Western inferiorizing …
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Second generation South Asian Muslims' conceptualisations of religious and ethnic identity
… the media and popular consciousness that young Asian Muslims are perhaps not as 'passive and obedient' as was previously thought. In addition to this, young Muslim South Asians are the fastest growing demographic group in Britain today and being located, for the most, at or near the bottom of …
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Ethnicity and attitudes to body shape
… The primary aims of this study were to compare British-born South Asian and Caucasian pre-adolescents and their views of their parents in their attitudes to obesity and importance of thinness. Secondary aims were to investigate the role of the family in terms of levels of conflict between girls …
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A matter of time? Temporality, agency and the cosmopolitan in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro and Timothy Mo
… in Britain and the wider world, as well as in British literature itself. With their dual British-Asian heritage and their interrogation of notions of history, identity and agency, these authors are often celebrated as proponents of the cosmopolitan novel, a genre which rejects binary notions of …
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From 'nobody to somebody' : challenges and opportunities for Gujarati women learning English in London
… class and gender which informs the formation of British-Asian femininities. This research supports other work that conceptualises identity as being in a constant state of flux, which is made explicitly visible within language learning processes that highlight identity as socially constructed, …
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Addressing childhood obesity in ethnic minority populations
… (n=808) identified their ethnic background as Asian British, Black African, Black Somali, Chinese, South Asian, White British and Yemeni. Ethnic background was significantly associated to parental perceptions of weight in childhood. Results showed Black Somali parents exhibited the lowest level …
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The social construction of identities by British-Muslim pupils aged 14-15 years
… construction of ethnic and gender identities by British-Muslim pupils, from a critical, feminist, discursive position. The research draws upon critical, feminist conceptualisations of identity which challenge positivistic Social Psychological theories of ethnic identity for constructing …