Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain

by Alison Shaw

Book Overview

Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the present day. Alison Shaw addresses the dynamics of migration, patterns of residence and kinship, ideas about health and illness, and notions of political and religious authority, and discusses the transformations and continuities of the lives of British Pakistanis against the backdrop of rural Pakistan and local...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9058230759
• ISBN13: 9789058230751
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"