Anne J Kershen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1060830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne J Kershen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kershen |
| SIGNATURE | KERSHEN A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Question of Identity
Part 1 British identity: being born lost? the cultural and institutional dimensions of Welsh identity, Wayne Parsons the Northern Irish identity, Karen Trew good Jew or a good Englishman? - the Jewish Lad's Brigade and Anglo-Jewish identity, Sharman Kadish issues of identity through the synagogue - British Jewish women in the late 20th century, Marlena Schmool paths and pitfalls in the exploration of British Bangladeshi identity, Rod Chalmers the…
Question of Identity
Language, Labour and Migration
Contents: Introduction, Anne J. Kershen. Language: Mother tongue as a bridge to assimilation?: Yiddish and Sylheti in East London, Anne J. Kershen a /Do not give flowers to a mana : refugees, language and power in twentieth century Britain, Tony Kushner a /Shamrocks growing out of their mouthsa : language and the racialization of the Irish in Britain, Bronwen Walter Health advocacy in medicine, Veronica L.C. White Becoming a Diaspora: the Welsh e…
London the Promised Land Revisited
Migration Across Boundaries
From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self
This book examines the role played by Arab-Palestinian culture and people in the construction and reproduction of Israeli national identity and culture, showing that it is impossible to understand modern Israeli national identity and culture without taking into account its crucial encounter and dialectical relationship with the Arab-Palestinian indigenous 'Other'. Based on extensive and original primary sources, including archival research, memoi…
Food in the British immigrant experience
The relationship between migration and food is one that takes many forms. For the migrant in Britain food has played a much greater role than simply providing nourishment on a regular basis. This article illustrates the way in which, for migrants, food has contributed to the construction and perception of outsider identity; how it has been used as a weapon by the racist and xenophobic, yet for other incomers has been the source of entrepreneurial…
“There was a priest, a rabbi and an imam …”
This article explores the relationship between patterns of immigrant settlement and religious practice in the East End of London over the past 350 years. It questions what needs religious attendance satisfied for the incomer and additionally examines the role played by the religious organization; variously as center for charitable support, locus of social organization in an “alien” culture, bridge between cultures, and source of economic opportun…
The Call of the Homeland
The emergence of nation-states and the earliest formation of diasporas are events separated by more than two millennia and yet, as the volume under review highlights, in the modern world these two
Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States
Jewish and Muslim Married Women Don't Work
This article sets out to locate the place and meaning of work within the lives of migrant wives by examining the experiences of two migrant waves into Britain: Eastern European Jews from Russia, Russia/Poland, and Romania at the end of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries; and Muslim Bangladeshis during the latter decades of the twentieth and dawn of the twenty-first centuries. Using a cultural and religious framework, it exp…
From Mon Pays , the Shtetl and the Desh to London's East End
Based on research carried out in the East End of London over a number of years, this article sets out to present an agument in favour of comparative migrant studies. As the traditional first point of settlement for migrants, the East End is a rich resource of immigrant history and contemporary ethnic activity, for over a century providing a fertile laboratory for those wishing to study the migrant experience. All too often the studies have been m…
Strangers, Aliens and Asians
The construction of home in a spitalfields landscape
For hundreds of years Spitalfields, the 250 acres that border the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the City of London, has been a first point of settlement for immigrants. Its tradition of political and religious non-conformity and its proximity to the City of London and the docks have acted as a unique beacon to those seeking refuge and economic opportunity in a capital city. Spitalfields has provided a landscape upon which the incomers have …
From Celebrationists to confrontationists
The centre for the study of migration at Queen Mary and Westfield College
The Centre for the Study of Migration was established at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1995 in order to provide a focal point in London for those involved in the study of the movements of people. The following article outlines the aims and objectives of the Centre and the various activities in which it is currently engaged. Details of the Centre's first conference are provided together with outlines of the papers given which will appear in …
Books
Barry Troyna and Richard Hatcher, Racism in Children's Lives: A Study of Mainly White Primary Schools, London: Routledge/National Children's Bureau, 1992, 216 pp., £35.00 h.b., £9.99 p.b. Alec G. Hargreaves, Voices from the North African Immigrant Community in France: Immigration and Identity in Beur Fiction, Oxford: Berg, 1991, 175 pp., £29.50 h.b. Vic Satzewich, Racism and the Incorporation of Foreign Labour: Farm Labour Migration to Canada Sin…
The construction of home in a spitalfields landscape
For hundreds of years Spitalfields, the 250 acres that border the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the City of London, has been a first point of settlement for immigrants. Its tradition of political and religious non-conformity and its proximity to the City of London and the docks have acted as a unique beacon to those seeking refuge and economic opportunity in a capital city. Spitalfields has provided a landscape upon which the incomers have …
From Celebrationists to confrontationists
Books
Barry Troyna and Richard Hatcher, Racism in Children's Lives: A Study of Mainly White Primary Schools, London: Routledge/National Children's Bureau, 1992, 216 pp., £35.00 h.b., £9.99 p.b. Alec G. Hargreaves, Voices from the North African Immigrant Community in France: Immigration and Identity in Beur Fiction, Oxford: Berg, 1991, 175 pp., £29.50 h.b. Vic Satzewich, Racism and the Incorporation of Foreign Labour: Farm Labour Migration to Canada Sin…
The centre for the study of migration at Queen Mary and Westfield College
The Centre for the Study of Migration was established at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1995 in order to provide a focal point in London for those involved in the study of the movements of people. The following article outlines the aims and objectives of the Centre and the various activities in which it is currently engaged. Details of the Centre's first conference are provided together with outlines of the papers given which will appear in …
From Celebrationists to confrontationists
Strangers, Aliens and Asians
The construction of home in a spitalfields landscape
For hundreds of years Spitalfields, the 250 acres that border the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the City of London, has been a first point of settlement for immigrants. Its tradition of political and religious non-conformity and its proximity to the City of London and the docks have acted as a unique beacon to those seeking refuge and economic opportunity in a capital city. Spitalfields has provided a landscape upon which the incomers have …
From Mon Pays , the Shtetl and the Desh to London's East End
Based on research carried out in the East End of London over a number of years, this article sets out to present an agument in favour of comparative migrant studies. As the traditional first point of settlement for migrants, the East End is a rich resource of immigrant history and contemporary ethnic activity, for over a century providing a fertile laboratory for those wishing to study the migrant experience. All too often the studies have been m…
Jewish and Muslim Married Women Don't Work
This article sets out to locate the place and meaning of work within the lives of migrant wives by examining the experiences of two migrant waves into Britain: Eastern European Jews from Russia, Russia/Poland, and Romania at the end of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries; and Muslim Bangladeshis during the latter decades of the twentieth and dawn of the twenty-first centuries. Using a cultural and religious framework, it exp…
Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States
“There was a priest, a rabbi and an imam …”
This article explores the relationship between patterns of immigrant settlement and religious practice in the East End of London over the past 350 years. It questions what needs religious attendance satisfied for the incomer and additionally examines the role played by the religious organization; variously as center for charitable support, locus of social organization in an “alien” culture, bridge between cultures, and source of economic opportun…
The Call of the Homeland
The emergence of nation-states and the earliest formation of diasporas are events separated by more than two millennia and yet, as the volume under review highlights, in the modern world these two
Food in the British immigrant experience
The relationship between migration and food is one that takes many forms. For the migrant in Britain food has played a much greater role than simply providing nourishment on a regular basis. This article illustrates the way in which, for migrants, food has contributed to the construction and perception of outsider identity; how it has been used as a weapon by the racist and xenophobic, yet for other incomers has been the source of entrepreneurial…
London the Promised Land Revisited
Migration Across Boundaries
From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self
This book examines the role played by Arab-Palestinian culture and people in the construction and reproduction of Israeli national identity and culture, showing that it is impossible to understand modern Israeli national identity and culture without taking into account its crucial encounter and dialectical relationship with the Arab-Palestinian indigenous 'Other'. Based on extensive and original primary sources, including archival research, memoi…
Language, Labour and Migration
Contents: Introduction, Anne J. Kershen. Language: Mother tongue as a bridge to assimilation?: Yiddish and Sylheti in East London, Anne J. Kershen a /Do not give flowers to a mana : refugees, language and power in twentieth century Britain, Tony Kushner a /Shamrocks growing out of their mouthsa : language and the racialization of the Irish in Britain, Bronwen Walter Health advocacy in medicine, Veronica L.C. White Becoming a Diaspora: the Welsh e…
A Question of Identity
Part 1 British identity: being born lost? the cultural and institutional dimensions of Welsh identity, Wayne Parsons the Northern Irish identity, Karen Trew good Jew or a good Englishman? - the Jewish Lad's Brigade and Anglo-Jewish identity, Sharman Kadish issues of identity through the synagogue - British Jewish women in the late 20th century, Marlena Schmool paths and pitfalls in the exploration of British Bangladeshi identity, Rod Chalmers the…
Question of Identity
History (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works)