Home and Sense of Belonging among Iraqi Kurds in the UK

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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In Home and Sense of Belonging among Iraqi Kurds in the UK , Ali Zalme explores how Iraqi Kurdish generations in the UK conceptualise home and belonging. Zalme challenges the essentialist and nationalist approach that often dominates discussions of diasporic community research, instead promoting perspectives from individuals’ experiences and their social practices. Home and Sense of Belonging investigates the Iraqi Kurdish community using a bottom-up approach, analyzing the new generation of Kurdish immigrants in the UK as a new culture with complex practices and rituals of their own.Throughout the book, Ali Zalme focuses on lived experiences from Iraqi Kurdish diasporic communities in the United Kingdom and acknowledges the diversity of both gender and generational distinctions. Using an autoethnographic approach and interviews with Iraqi Kurdish immigrants in the UK, Zalme questions the homogeneity of Kurdishness and examines its particularities in diaspora.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-11-18
Mått165 x 240 x 15 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieKurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations
Antal sidor154
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793617545

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The way diasporic communities in the West see themselves, and the extent to which they feel they belong, have become hot topics in recent days. This innovative, sensitive, and compellingly readable case study of the Kurds of Bristol, England questions some long-held assumptions not only about Kurdish identity but about ethnic identity more generally. The author -an Iraqi Kurd who sees himself as a member of 'a diaspora within a diaspora' - is well placed to provide new insights into the way family dynamics, gender and personal histories inform peoples' sense of themselves.