Description:Werbner shows that utlimately, living in the diaspora is a matter of continually negotiating the parameters of minority citizesnhip. For British Muslims this process, which is usually peaceful, has had to lurch from one confrontation to anther: from the Rushdie affair to the Gulf War to the September 11 crisis. Each time the signs are of a more mature grasp by diasporic Muslims of what it means to be a British citizen in a global world.