British Muslim Politics

Parveen Akhtar is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK.

• 1. Post-war Pakistani Migration and Settlement 2. Politics of Immigration and Settlement Politics: State Responses, Masculine Corporatism and Biraderi Leadership 3. Rushdie, the Limits of Biraderi Politics and Muslim Organisations 4. Biraderis and Biraderi-Politicking in Contemporary Politics 5. Changing Identities and Biraderi Across Generations 6. Young Pakistanis in the Public Sphere: 'New' Community Organisations 7. From Cultural Religion to Political Islam and back again

"British Muslim Politics is an important study about a growing community in the United Kingdom that uses voices from the Pakistani diaspora. ... the book adds to our knowledge about Pakistani involvement in British politics and contains a solid analysis about the shifting political consciousness across the Pakistani generations." (Ryan Shaffer, Political Studies Review, Vol. 14 (1), February, 2016)