H Iqbal
Biographic Data
| ID | 28141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Iqbal |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Iqbal |
| SIGNATURE | IQBAL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3437-3759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The marriage question: How does statelessness impact marriage and family life in Pakistan
Marriage is at the heart of personal, family and community life in Pakistan, but for undocumented Pakistani Bengalis it is increasingly constrained by digital identity requirements and long-standing legal and societal exclusions. Drawing on new research, this article traces how citizenship uncertainty shapes intimate decisions and accelerates generational inequalities
Suspended identity: Statelessness, citizenship challenges and the impermanence of identity status faced by Pakistani Bengalis
Approximately 3 million ethnic Bengalis reside in Pakistan, some of whom have been refused citizenship rights and continue to face social and cultural exclusion despite being in their third and fourth generations. Many came following the creation of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) in 1971 under challenging circumstances. This paper examines the ongoing citizenship challenges faced by the Pakistani Bengali community in Karachi, Pakistan, with …
Agency, aspirations and citizenship: Non‐formal education from the perspective of children in street situations in Pakistan
This paper explores an NGO‐based non‐formal education (NFE) intervention in Pakistan from the perspective of its recipients, children in street situations. Recognizing children as agential beings, we draw on participant observation and in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with 20 children, aged 10–19 years. Young people discussed the impact of the intervention on their self‐worth and future aspirations. They also reflected on their growing awarene…
Cross-species emotional political ecology in rural Pakistan
This article engages cross-species intersectionality and emotional political ecology to evaluate a dairy extension service that ran in Punjab and Sindh, Pakistan, between 2012 and 2017. The project aimed to mitigate potential negative impacts of implementation, such as the exacerbation of pre-existing social inequality, by applying principles of women’s agency and empowerment in project design. Evidence from the two case study villages reveals ho…
Covid labour: Making a 'livable' life under lockdown
Drawing on qualitative longitudinal data from 38 families with children in the UK collected between May 2020 and June 2021, this article discusses the extra everyday labour which individuals experienced in going about their daily lives during COVID-19. In particular, we examine in detail the everyday practices of negotiating risk and caring for self and others within the context of the pandemic. We call this COVID labour - the work involved in li…
Child language brokering as a family care practice: Reframing the ‘parentified child’ debate
This paper explores the perspectives of 29 child language brokers living in the UK who interpret for their family following migration. They were presented with vignette stories depicting a potentially conflictual situation between a language broker, a parent and an adult ‘other’ in a position of power or authority. Drawing on debates about language brokering as a family care practice, the ‘parentified child’ and discussions about non‐normative ch…
Depicting Women Through Transitivity Choices: A Comparative Analysis
The study aims at depicting how male and female authors portray female characters and how their core ideologies and social influences affect these depictions. This study is based on the feminist stylistic approach, proposed by Sara Mills (1995), embedded with the literary theory of feminism. It is an overlapping field that has its roots in critical discourse analysis. This stance is significant as it allows to critically look at the substance to …
Er, not the best time’: Methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic
That the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on families and relationships hardly needs reiterating. For the first time in the post-industrialised era, the main institutions of social life (including education, care and work) have largely been pushed into the home, exposing ever further the inequalities (such as gender and generation) around which family life revolves -as well as making clear the huge variation in what the definition of a 'home',…
Identifying a space for young Black Muslim women in contemporary Britain
Young Black Muslim Women (BMW) have complex, intersectional identities and exist at the margins of various identity groupings. Given this, members of the community can face societal relegation across, not only race and gender lines, but across religious ones, too. This paper explores the lived experiences of intragroup discrimination, identity and belonging in 11 young Black Muslim Women in the United Kingdom. In-depth, semi-structured interviews…
Living in the city: School Friendships, Diversity and the Middle Classes
Much of the literature on the urban middle classes describes processes of both affiliation (often to the localities) and disaffiliation (often from some of the non-middle-class residents). In this paper, we consider this situation from a different position, drawing on research exploring whether and how children and adults living in diverse localities develop friendships with those different to themselves in terms of social class and ethnicity. Th…
The Generation Game: Parenting and Child Outcomes in Second-Generation South Asian Immigrant Families in Britain
Despite much research being conducted around identity and acculturation, immigrant groups are often collectively considered according to ethnicity with broad policy recommendations applied to them. The role of generational status is frequently ignored. This article reveals findings from an in-depth interview and questionnaire-based assessment of parenting quality and parent-child relationships, child psychological adjustment, and contextual facto…
Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses
This paper reports on a project exploring the friendships of children and adults in ‘super-diverse’ (Vertovec, 2007) localities in London, England, examining whether and how friendships are made and maintained across ethnic and social class differences. The aim is to identify what friendships reveal about the nature and extent of ethnic and social divisions in contemporary multicultural society. Drawing on interviews with children and their paren…
Children's friendships in super-diverse localities: Encounters with social and ethnic difference
This article explores how children make, manage, or avoid friendships in super-diverse primary school settings. We draw on interviews and pictorial data from 78 children, aged 8-9 years across three local London primary schools to identify particular friendship groupings and the extent to which they followed existing patterns of social division. Children in the study did recognise social and cultural differences, but their friendship perceptions,…
Children’s friendships in diverse primary schools: Teachers and the processes of policy enactment
Drawing on data from a project exploring children's and adults’ friendships across social class and ethnic difference, this paper focuses on the enactment of national and institutional policy around children’s friendships as realized in three primary schools in diverse urban areas in London. Through a focus on the way in which social and emotional learning (SEL) and teachers’ understandings of children’s friendships seek to govern children’s frie…
Extended Encounters in Primary School Worlds: Shared Social Resource, Connective Spaces and Sustained Conviviality in Socially and Ethnically Complex Urban Geographies
This paper draws on a qualitative data set from a recently completed research project that uses education as a lens through which to understand social and place relations in super-diverse and gentrifying London geographies. Focusing on the collective sharing of a social resource and the (contradictory) social and spatial dynamics of conviviality, the paper argues that adult participants found primary schools to be a source of social exchange. The…
Multicultural parenting: Preparation for bias socialisation in British South Asian and White families in the UK
Damnations: British Pakistanis, British cinema and sociological mimicry
The recent limelight, endured more than enjoyed by the British Pakistani diaspora seems to have a peculiar manifestation in British cinema. British Pakistani actors, script-writers or simply common citizens employed ad-hoc have been involved in a number of relatively successful films, thus creating a conspicuous source of information on the lives in the diaspora and engaged the audience beyond an artistic appraisal whereby issues such as reliabil…
Children's friendships in super-diverse localities: Encounters with social and ethnic difference
This article explores how children make, manage, or avoid friendships in super-diverse primary school settings. We draw on interviews and pictorial data from 78 children, aged 8-9 years across three local London primary schools to identify particular friendship groupings and the extent to which they followed existing patterns of social division. Children in the study did recognise social and cultural differences, but their friendship perceptions,…
Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses
This paper reports on a project exploring the friendships of children and adults in ‘super-diverse’ (Vertovec, 2007) localities in London, England, examining whether and how friendships are made and maintained across ethnic and social class differences. The aim is to identify what friendships reveal about the nature and extent of ethnic and social divisions in contemporary multicultural society. Drawing on interviews with children and their paren…
Extended Encounters in Primary School Worlds: Shared Social Resource, Connective Spaces and Sustained Conviviality in Socially and Ethnically Complex Urban Geographies
This paper draws on a qualitative data set from a recently completed research project that uses education as a lens through which to understand social and place relations in super-diverse and gentrifying London geographies. Focusing on the collective sharing of a social resource and the (contradictory) social and spatial dynamics of conviviality, the paper argues that adult participants found primary schools to be a source of social exchange. The…
Multicultural parenting: Preparation for bias socialisation in British South Asian and White families in the UK
Covid labour: Making a 'livable' life under lockdown
Drawing on qualitative longitudinal data from 38 families with children in the UK collected between May 2020 and June 2021, this article discusses the extra everyday labour which individuals experienced in going about their daily lives during COVID-19. In particular, we examine in detail the everyday practices of negotiating risk and caring for self and others within the context of the pandemic. We call this COVID labour - the work involved in li…
Er, not the best time’: Methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic
That the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on families and relationships hardly needs reiterating. For the first time in the post-industrialised era, the main institutions of social life (including education, care and work) have largely been pushed into the home, exposing ever further the inequalities (such as gender and generation) around which family life revolves -as well as making clear the huge variation in what the definition of a 'home',…
Living in the city: School Friendships, Diversity and the Middle Classes
Much of the literature on the urban middle classes describes processes of both affiliation (often to the localities) and disaffiliation (often from some of the non-middle-class residents). In this paper, we consider this situation from a different position, drawing on research exploring whether and how children and adults living in diverse localities develop friendships with those different to themselves in terms of social class and ethnicity. Th…
Children’s friendships in diverse primary schools: Teachers and the processes of policy enactment
Drawing on data from a project exploring children's and adults’ friendships across social class and ethnic difference, this paper focuses on the enactment of national and institutional policy around children’s friendships as realized in three primary schools in diverse urban areas in London. Through a focus on the way in which social and emotional learning (SEL) and teachers’ understandings of children’s friendships seek to govern children’s frie…
Suspended identity: Statelessness, citizenship challenges and the impermanence of identity status faced by Pakistani Bengalis
Approximately 3 million ethnic Bengalis reside in Pakistan, some of whom have been refused citizenship rights and continue to face social and cultural exclusion despite being in their third and fourth generations. Many came following the creation of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) in 1971 under challenging circumstances. This paper examines the ongoing citizenship challenges faced by the Pakistani Bengali community in Karachi, Pakistan, with …
Identifying a space for young Black Muslim women in contemporary Britain
Young Black Muslim Women (BMW) have complex, intersectional identities and exist at the margins of various identity groupings. Given this, members of the community can face societal relegation across, not only race and gender lines, but across religious ones, too. This paper explores the lived experiences of intragroup discrimination, identity and belonging in 11 young Black Muslim Women in the United Kingdom. In-depth, semi-structured interviews…
Damnations: British Pakistanis, British cinema and sociological mimicry
The recent limelight, endured more than enjoyed by the British Pakistani diaspora seems to have a peculiar manifestation in British cinema. British Pakistani actors, script-writers or simply common citizens employed ad-hoc have been involved in a number of relatively successful films, thus creating a conspicuous source of information on the lives in the diaspora and engaged the audience beyond an artistic appraisal whereby issues such as reliabil…
Cross-species emotional political ecology in rural Pakistan
This article engages cross-species intersectionality and emotional political ecology to evaluate a dairy extension service that ran in Punjab and Sindh, Pakistan, between 2012 and 2017. The project aimed to mitigate potential negative impacts of implementation, such as the exacerbation of pre-existing social inequality, by applying principles of women’s agency and empowerment in project design. Evidence from the two case study villages reveals ho…
The Generation Game: Parenting and Child Outcomes in Second-Generation South Asian Immigrant Families in Britain
Despite much research being conducted around identity and acculturation, immigrant groups are often collectively considered according to ethnicity with broad policy recommendations applied to them. The role of generational status is frequently ignored. This article reveals findings from an in-depth interview and questionnaire-based assessment of parenting quality and parent-child relationships, child psychological adjustment, and contextual facto…
Damnations: British Pakistanis, British cinema and sociological mimicry
The recent limelight, endured more than enjoyed by the British Pakistani diaspora seems to have a peculiar manifestation in British cinema. British Pakistani actors, script-writers or simply common citizens employed ad-hoc have been involved in a number of relatively successful films, thus creating a conspicuous source of information on the lives in the diaspora and engaged the audience beyond an artistic appraisal whereby issues such as reliabil…
Multicultural parenting: Preparation for bias socialisation in British South Asian and White families in the UK
Children’s friendships in diverse primary schools: Teachers and the processes of policy enactment
Drawing on data from a project exploring children's and adults’ friendships across social class and ethnic difference, this paper focuses on the enactment of national and institutional policy around children’s friendships as realized in three primary schools in diverse urban areas in London. Through a focus on the way in which social and emotional learning (SEL) and teachers’ understandings of children’s friendships seek to govern children’s frie…
Extended Encounters in Primary School Worlds: Shared Social Resource, Connective Spaces and Sustained Conviviality in Socially and Ethnically Complex Urban Geographies
This paper draws on a qualitative data set from a recently completed research project that uses education as a lens through which to understand social and place relations in super-diverse and gentrifying London geographies. Focusing on the collective sharing of a social resource and the (contradictory) social and spatial dynamics of conviviality, the paper argues that adult participants found primary schools to be a source of social exchange. The…
Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses
This paper reports on a project exploring the friendships of children and adults in ‘super-diverse’ (Vertovec, 2007) localities in London, England, examining whether and how friendships are made and maintained across ethnic and social class differences. The aim is to identify what friendships reveal about the nature and extent of ethnic and social divisions in contemporary multicultural society. Drawing on interviews with children and their paren…
Children's friendships in super-diverse localities: Encounters with social and ethnic difference
This article explores how children make, manage, or avoid friendships in super-diverse primary school settings. We draw on interviews and pictorial data from 78 children, aged 8-9 years across three local London primary schools to identify particular friendship groupings and the extent to which they followed existing patterns of social division. Children in the study did recognise social and cultural differences, but their friendship perceptions,…
Living in the city: School Friendships, Diversity and the Middle Classes
Much of the literature on the urban middle classes describes processes of both affiliation (often to the localities) and disaffiliation (often from some of the non-middle-class residents). In this paper, we consider this situation from a different position, drawing on research exploring whether and how children and adults living in diverse localities develop friendships with those different to themselves in terms of social class and ethnicity. Th…
The Generation Game: Parenting and Child Outcomes in Second-Generation South Asian Immigrant Families in Britain
Despite much research being conducted around identity and acculturation, immigrant groups are often collectively considered according to ethnicity with broad policy recommendations applied to them. The role of generational status is frequently ignored. This article reveals findings from an in-depth interview and questionnaire-based assessment of parenting quality and parent-child relationships, child psychological adjustment, and contextual facto…
Depicting Women Through Transitivity Choices: A Comparative Analysis
The study aims at depicting how male and female authors portray female characters and how their core ideologies and social influences affect these depictions. This study is based on the feminist stylistic approach, proposed by Sara Mills (1995), embedded with the literary theory of feminism. It is an overlapping field that has its roots in critical discourse analysis. This stance is significant as it allows to critically look at the substance to …
Er, not the best time’: Methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic
That the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on families and relationships hardly needs reiterating. For the first time in the post-industrialised era, the main institutions of social life (including education, care and work) have largely been pushed into the home, exposing ever further the inequalities (such as gender and generation) around which family life revolves -as well as making clear the huge variation in what the definition of a 'home',…
Identifying a space for young Black Muslim women in contemporary Britain
Young Black Muslim Women (BMW) have complex, intersectional identities and exist at the margins of various identity groupings. Given this, members of the community can face societal relegation across, not only race and gender lines, but across religious ones, too. This paper explores the lived experiences of intragroup discrimination, identity and belonging in 11 young Black Muslim Women in the United Kingdom. In-depth, semi-structured interviews…
Child language brokering as a family care practice: Reframing the ‘parentified child’ debate
This paper explores the perspectives of 29 child language brokers living in the UK who interpret for their family following migration. They were presented with vignette stories depicting a potentially conflictual situation between a language broker, a parent and an adult ‘other’ in a position of power or authority. Drawing on debates about language brokering as a family care practice, the ‘parentified child’ and discussions about non‐normative ch…
Agency, aspirations and citizenship: Non‐formal education from the perspective of children in street situations in Pakistan
This paper explores an NGO‐based non‐formal education (NFE) intervention in Pakistan from the perspective of its recipients, children in street situations. Recognizing children as agential beings, we draw on participant observation and in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with 20 children, aged 10–19 years. Young people discussed the impact of the intervention on their self‐worth and future aspirations. They also reflected on their growing awarene…
Cross-species emotional political ecology in rural Pakistan
This article engages cross-species intersectionality and emotional political ecology to evaluate a dairy extension service that ran in Punjab and Sindh, Pakistan, between 2012 and 2017. The project aimed to mitigate potential negative impacts of implementation, such as the exacerbation of pre-existing social inequality, by applying principles of women’s agency and empowerment in project design. Evidence from the two case study villages reveals ho…
Covid labour: Making a 'livable' life under lockdown
Drawing on qualitative longitudinal data from 38 families with children in the UK collected between May 2020 and June 2021, this article discusses the extra everyday labour which individuals experienced in going about their daily lives during COVID-19. In particular, we examine in detail the everyday practices of negotiating risk and caring for self and others within the context of the pandemic. We call this COVID labour - the work involved in li…
Suspended identity: Statelessness, citizenship challenges and the impermanence of identity status faced by Pakistani Bengalis
Approximately 3 million ethnic Bengalis reside in Pakistan, some of whom have been refused citizenship rights and continue to face social and cultural exclusion despite being in their third and fourth generations. Many came following the creation of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) in 1971 under challenging circumstances. This paper examines the ongoing citizenship challenges faced by the Pakistani Bengali community in Karachi, Pakistan, with …
The marriage question: How does statelessness impact marriage and family life in Pakistan
Marriage is at the heart of personal, family and community life in Pakistan, but for undocumented Pakistani Bengalis it is increasingly constrained by digital identity requirements and long-standing legal and societal exclusions. Drawing on new research, this article traces how citizenship uncertainty shapes intimate decisions and accelerates generational inequalities
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works)