Transients, Settlers, and Refugees: Asians in Britain

by Vaughan Robinson

Based on a study of Asian immigrants in the British northern industrial town of Blackburn, this book makes a significant contribution to the study of race relations in the West. The author formulates and tests a model that expresses the relationship between Asian communities and British society in terms of "closure", "encapsulation", and "marginaltiy", stressing the significance of Asian values and experience. Within this framework he develops a better...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198780095
• ISBN13: 9780198780090
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages