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Subject(s)

• Yemenis—Great Britain—History [Browse]
• Muslims—Great Britain—History [Browse]
• Yemenis—Great Britain—Social conditions [Browse]
• Muslims—Great Britain—Social conditions [Browse]
• Great Britain—Ethnic relations—History [Browse]

Related work(s)

Halliday, Fred. Arabs in exile. [Browse]

Summary note

Fear of the terrorist threat provoked by radical Islam has generated heated debates on multiculturalism and the integration of Muslim migrant communities in to Britain. Yet little is known about Britain's first Muslims, the Yemenis. Yemenis began settling in British port towns at the beginning of the 20th century, and afterwards became part of the immigrant labour force in Britain's industrial cities. Fred Halliday's ground-breaking research, based in Yemen and Britain, provides a fascinating case study for understanding the dynamics of immigrant cultures and the complexities of 'Muslim' iden

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL, viewed October 30, 2015).

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; Preface to the Second Edition: the Creation of 'Muslim' Britain; Introduction; 1. Yemeni Migration and its Contexts; Arab Migration: An Overview; Immigrants in Britain; The Yemeni Background; 'The Disaster of the Twentieth Century'; 2. The First Yemeni Migration: The Ports; Cardiff: Tiger Bay and Bilad al-Welsh; The 1919 Riots; Sheikh Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi; Cardiff in the 1970s; South Shields: The Mill Dam Riots and Beyond; Liverpool: On 'The Street of the Yemenis'; 3. Yemenis in Industrial Cities: The Pattern of the 1970s; An Immigrant Minority; The Postwar Influx
• Industrial EmploymentA 'Yemeni' Factory; Housing and Social Conditions; Women: Absent and Present; Social Problems: Al-Tax and Haqq al-Qahwa; Anxieties of the Mid 1970s: Racism and Economic Depression; 4. A Yemeni Workers' Organization; Nationalist Movements and Immigrant Activity; The Emergence of Political Organizations; Function and Structure of the YWU; Union Activities; A Political Orientation; 5. A Community in Transition: The Yemenis in the 1980s; Factors for Change: British and Yemeni; A Community Revitalized: The Case of Sheffield; South Shields: Beyond the Recession
• In the Shadow of the Tower: The Yemenis in LondonUnwelcome Attentions: 'Killer Drug' and 'Brides for Sale'; The 'Invisible' Arab; Yemenis and South Asians: Characteristics Shared; The Islamic Dimension; The Distinctiveness of the Yemenis; Appendices 1. Correspondence concerning the building of mosques in Cardiff and South Shields, 1938-9; Appendices 2. Sheffield Yemeni Welfare Advice Centre Constitution, 1985; Notes; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 9786612881800
• 9781282881808
• 1282881809
• 9780857711083
• 0857711083
• 9781441679505
• 1441679502
• 9786000043797
• 6000043791

OCLC

710975679

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