Strangers, Aliens and Asians: Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields 1666-2000 (British Politics Society) PDF
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Strangers, Aliens and Asians For centuries Spitalfields in East London has been a first point of settlement for new immigrants to Britain. Proximate to the affluence of the City of London and the poverty of what is now the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Spitalfields has been, and still is, an area ‘on the edge’. This book examines the settlement, integration and assimilation processes undergone by three different immigrant groups over a period of almost 350 years, assessing the relative successes and failures. The groups looked at are the French Huguenots who arrived in significant numbers in the closing decades of the seventeenth century; Eastern European Jews coming from the Russian Empire in the last third of the nineteenth century; and Bangladeshis whose large-scale settlement began in the late 1950s. Strangers, Aliens and Asians sets out to investigate at grass-roots level the migrant experience and the processes by which the outsider may become the insider. The book explores the dynamics which drive the processes of immigrant settlement and assimilation and looks at whether these are solely the outcome of the temporal setting, cultural background and the contemporaneous socio-economic and political conditions, or whether there are factors which, irrespective of the prevailing environment, are constant features in the symbiosis between the outsider and the insider. The central themes under discussion include the reconstruction of home in an alien environment; migrant religiosity in an alien society; the role of the mother tongue in the assimilation process; and the expressions of xenophobia, anti-alienism and racism that emerged over the centuries in Spitalfields. Anne J.Kershen is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary, University of London. 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Strangers, Aliens and Asians Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields 1660–2000 Anne J.Kershen LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2005 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” © 2005 Anne J.Kershen All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publisher makes no representation, express or implied, with regard to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-64243-0 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-69088-5 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-714-65525-2 (Print Edition) For my grandson, Alexander Fisher Contents Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1 People, place and a phenomenon 6 2 Home 24 3 Spitalfields: a place on the edge 48 4 Religion 66 5 Charity and welfare 95 6 Mother tongue as a bridge to assimilation? 117 7 Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis and the spirit of capitalism 146 8 Xenophobia, anti-alienism and racism 168 Conclusion 198 Bibliography 205 Index 214
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