Oriental Identities in Super-Diverse Britain [electronic resource] : Young Vietnamese in London /
Barber, T.author.
Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic 'Oriental' category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in Britain.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The British Vietnamese Diaspora; 2 Orientalism, Counter-Orientalism and Identity in Multicultural Britain; 3 'Is It Because I Am Yellow?': Categorisation and Difference Among the 'Second-Generation' in Britain; 4 Black British, White British, 'Oriental British'?; 5 Counter-Orientalisms and the Politics of Hair, Clubbing and Dating; 6 Navigating 'the Vietnamese Community': Local and Transnational Belongings; 7 British Vietnamese Identities, Orientalism and Super-Diverse Futures?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic 'Oriental' category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in Britain.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnicity.
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology.
Ethnology—Asia.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Migration.
Ethnicity Studies.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Asian Culture.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.