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According to the International Organisation for Migration, the Bangladeshi diaspora is one of the world’s largest with around 2.4 million members, and the United Kingdom and the United States are two of the primary countries of settlement. *Postcolonial Citizens *examines the experiences of several generations of Muslim Bangladeshi migrants in London and Los Angeles. Although narratives of globalisation suggest increasing homogeneity this book shows how the Bangladeshi diaspora experience has been shaped by their cities of settlement. Crucial to this analysis is the concept of ‘racial regimes’ developed by Cedric Robinson which considers how ‘race’ reworks itself in different historical and geographical circumstances.
Since 9/11, the transnational practices of diasporic Muslims have received significant negative attention, as both security threats and impediments to citizenship. *Postcolonial Citizens *unpacks the mutually constitutive relationship between citizenship and transnationalism by focusing on three transnational domains – remittances, religion and investment – in relation to Muslim Bangladeshis in the US and the UK. It is a tale of two cities separated by the Atlantic, and by the respective, albeit interconnected, histories of colonialism and settler colonialism through which different racial practices have emerged and are legitimated in the current conjuncture.
According to the International Organisation for Migration, the Bangladeshi diaspora is one of the world’s largest with around 2.4 million members, and the United Kingdom and the United States are two of the primary countries of settlement. *Postcolonial Citizens *examines the experiences of several generations of Muslim Bangladeshi migrants in London and Los Angeles. Although narratives of globalisation suggest increasing homogeneity this book shows how the Bangladeshi diaspora experience has been shaped by their cities of settlement. Crucial to this analysis is the concept of ‘racial regimes’ developed by Cedric Robinson which considers how ‘race’ reworks itself in different historical and geographical circumstances.
Since 9/11, the transnational practices of diasporic Muslims have received significant negative attention, as both security threats and impediments to citizenship. *Postcolonial Citizens *unpacks the mutually constitutive relationship between citizenship and transnationalism by focusing on three transnational domains – remittances, religion and investment – in relation to Muslim Bangladeshis in the US and the UK. It is a tale of two cities separated by the Atlantic, and by the respective, albeit interconnected, histories of colonialism and settler colonialism through which different racial practices have emerged and are legitimated in the current conjuncture.
Victoria Redclift (Author)
Victoria Redclift is an Associate Professor of Political Sociology at UCL. Her first book Statelessness and citizenship: Camps and the creation of ‘political space’ was shortlisted for the British Sociological Society Phillip Abrams Memorial Prize. Her work has been funded by UKRI, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy and the NIHR and focuses on spatial formations of political exclusion, the long-term impact of historical displacement, and the negotiation of transnational citizenship. She has worked at the LSE, the University of Manchester and the University of Surrey, and joined UCL in 2018.
Fatima Rajina (Author)
Fatima Rajina has been a Senior Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University since September 2020. Upon completing her PhD, she published the monograph British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language. Her work pays particular attention to the ways in which socio-political moments that impact Muslims globally shape how Muslims negotiate belonging at the micro level. She has worked at SOAS, University of Surrey, University of Cambridge, Kingston University London, and UCL.
Naaz Rashid (Author)
Naaz Rashid is a Research Associate at the Sussex Centre of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, where she was previously an Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. She is the author of Veiled Threats: Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses and has written extensively about changing representations of Muslim women in the UK's counter terrorism agenda. Her research is broadly focused on the intersections of race, religion, gender and class. She has written for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and Open Democracy.
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