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Marta Bolognani

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ID631399
NAMEMarta Bolognani
GIVEN NAMESMarta
FAMILY NAMEBolognani
SIGNATUREBOLOGNANI M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bristol
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS180
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX9
  • Marrying 'in'/marrying 'out'? Blurred boundaries in British Pakistani marriage choices

    Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•New Community•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 42

    The widespread practice of transnational marriage among British Pakistanis has often been understood through an ethnic lens, as emphasising the boundaries of ethnicity and reaffirming bonds of kinship to Pakistan. Within British Pakistani families, however, a diversity of marriages may exist, with some siblings married transnationally, whilst others have partners from within the UK. Marriage between cousins or more distant relatives is common, bu…

  • Marriage Migration and Integration

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani et al.•BOOK•Marriage Migration and Integration•2020

  • Marriage migration and integration: Interrogating assumptions in academic and policy debates

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2017•Cited by: 22•References: 69

    In both policy and academic debates in Britain, as elsewhere in Europe, concern is increasingly expressed over the implications of spousal immigration for ‘integration’. Continued practices of ‘homeland’ transnational marriage within some ethnic minority communities, in particular, are presented as problematic, and new immigration restrictions likely to particularly affect such groups are justified on the grounds of promoting integration. The evi…

  • Being a freshie is (not) cool: Stigma, capital and disgust in British Pakistani stereotypes of new subcontinental migrants

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2017•Cited by: 22•References: 31

    Intra-ethnic discrimination, in the form of stereotyping of recent migrants by settled ethnic minorities, has been interpreted as internalized racism, displacing stigma and negotiation of local hierarchies of belonging. Stereotypes of 'Fresh off the Boat' migrants construct cultural boundaries and assertions of belonging, offering clues to processes of identity-making where ethnicity is complicated by ongoing migration. In British Pakistani portr…

  • Return Imaginaries and Political Climate: Comparing Thinking About Return Mobilities Among Pakistani Origin Migrants and Descendants in Norway and the UK

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani, Marta Bivand Erdal•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 36

    The political climate on immigration and diversity in various European societies has previously been analysed in relation to media representations, policy regimes and public opinion. This paper focuses more narrowly on how political climates affect migrant and post-migrant generations, as inhabitants of these European societies. We focus on the impact of ambivalence resulting from perceived lack of recognition as full citizens in European societi…

  • From myth of return to return fantasy: A psychosocial interpretation of migration imaginaries

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Identities•2016

    By referring to the myth of return, migration literature has focused mainly on sociopolitical explanations, neglecting intersubjective dynamics. This paper operates a switch from myth of return to fantasy. This allows the analysis to be detached from the return speculation's outcome. It also recognises the cross-generational endurance of return-thinking as functional to the process of identity-building as part of a migrant's search for well-being…

  • The Emergence of Lifestyle Reasoning in Return Considerations among British Pakistanis

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•International Migration•2014•Cited by: 20•References: 5

    This article discusses the growing popularity of lifestyle reasoning in return considerations among Pakistani migrants and their children in Britain. Although lifestyle arguments are by no means new to scholarship on return migration, I argue that British Pakistanis' settlement history has led to return reasoning beyond purely economic considerations. Changes in status, power, and position, with respect to both countries of origin and settlement,…

  • Visits to the country of origin: How second-generation British Pakistanis shape transnational identity and maintain power asymmetries

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Global Networks•2014•Cited by: 27•References: 33

    In this article, I identify the need for more nuanced approaches to transnational emotional attachment, especially with regard to the second generation. Interviewing second-generation British Pakistanis while on their holidays in Pakistan and comparing the findings with data collected in the UK provides a more realistic exploration of the phenomenon than would have been possible with only narratives collected before and after the trips. In contra…

  • The changing public face of Muslim associations in Britain: Coming together for common ‘social’ goals

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani, P Statham•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 12

    This article examines the Muslim organizational field in Britain based on interviews with activists. It applies a political opportunity perspective to address the degree to which organizations’ aims and activities have been shaped by the contextual factors confronting them, or more independently, by ‘bottom-up’ beliefs and commitments drawn from their relationships to the community. Specifically, the empirical part examines, first, how activists …

  • Good culture, bad culture…no culture! The implications of culture in urban regeneration in Bradford, UK

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Critical Social Policy•2012

    This paper shows how regeneration policies in Bradford (UK) have over the years been modified following local, national and international events since 1997. It will be argued that policy makers reacted to public perceptions of the city itself and of its large Muslim community in three phases: celebration of local minority ethnic culture; pathologization of the same; exclusion of any cultural element from the city’s self-projection. The paper sugg…

  • British Pakistani women's use of the ‘religion versus culture’ contrast: A critical analysis

    Marta Bolognani, Jody Mellor•ARTICLE•Culture and Religion•2012•Cited by: 10•References: 23

    This paper's aim is to highlight a series of problems related to data collection, analysis and ethics of research on British Pakistani women and their marriage choices. The authors will argue that much of the literature on this topic has stopped one step short of critically engaging with the ubiquitous and thus meaningful ‘religion versus culture’ paradigm. This leads both to a sort of acceptance of the existence, but especially of the effectiven…

  • Communities, audiences, and multi-functions: British cultural politics and the showcasing of South Asian art

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•South Asian Popular Culture•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    The development of South Asian arts in the UK has gone from using typical colonial and ‘high culture’ showcases to using particular but still far more ‘mainstream’ formats, and has been publicly subsidised in a number of ways, including through community projects. In many respects, South Asian arts is not a ‘niche product’ any more due to the (mainly political) tension towards creating a distinctively ‘British Asian’ (or BrAsian) rather than a st…

  • Damnations: British Pakistanis, British cinema and sociological mimicry

    Marta Bolognani, Erum A Haider et al.•ARTICLE•South Asian Popular Culture•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    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…

  • Star fission: Shoaib Akhtar and fragmentation as transnational celebrity strategy

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Celebrity Studies•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    If we understand ‘the making of celebrity’ as a specific cultural endeavour, transnational celebrity must be viewed as the opportunity (structure) or capacity (agency) to exercise control over fame, at a very high level of cultural complexity, across cultural borders. It would appear that the conditio sine qua non for the longevity of a star is exactly this capacity of transcending one's nation's cultural specificity. In this article, the Guinnes…

  • South Asian media in the Noughties

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Contemporary South Asia•2010•References: 4

    This introductory note identifies the scope of this special issue as a challenge to predominantly technology-based analysis of media in South Asia. By exploring the ways in which specific power structures, multiple cultural and social milieus, and the flourishing of technological possibilities play out in the different case studies, these authors reject the view of media as an all-encompassing power by highlighting different cases where a disjunc…

  • Virtual protest with tangible effects? Some observations on the media strategies of the 2007 Pakistani anti-Emergency movement

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Contemporary South Asia•2010•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    On 3rd November 2007 General Parvez Musharraf imposed a State of Emergency on Pakistan. During the State of Emergency the judiciary was turned upside down, the media selectively censored and many lawyers and human rights activists were arrested. While the lower classes remained relatively silent and carried on with their daily routines, an unprecedented movement against Musharraf, but more so pro-democracy and pro-judiciary, swept the country. Th…

  • Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2010

  • Crime and Muslim Britain: Race, Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis

    Marta Bolognani•BOOK•Crime and Muslim Britain•2009

    The Britain of the early twenty-first century has become consumed by heightened concerns about violent crime and terrorism in relation to Muslim communities in the West. Here Marta Bolognani fills a major gap in criminology and diaspora studies through an exhaustive investigation into crime among British Pakistanis. Through detailed ethnographic observation and interview data, Bolognani shows how Bradford Pakistanis’ perceptions of crime and cont…

  • Crime and Muslim Britain: Race, Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis (Library of Crime and Criminology)

    Marta Bolognani•BOOK•Crime and Muslim Britain•2009

    The Iranian revolution of 1979 overhauled not only the foundations of Iranian society, religion and politics, but also our understanding of the role of religion in modern government. Here Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi takes us on an enlightening journey, showing that the revolution unintentionally opened up the public sphere to competing interpretations of Islam. Far from being the exclusive preserve of high-ranking seminarians as before, in contempora…

  • Les « désordres ethniques » à Bradford (Grande-Bretagne)

    Marta Bolognani, Maurice Blanc•ARTICLE•Espaces et sociétés•2007

    Cet article présente les émeutes ethniques et les dispositifs institutionnels en Grande-Bretagne dans la période récente, puis les « désordres » de Bradford en 1995 et 2001. Si la controverse oppose explications « structurelles » et « culturelles », les données ethnographiques estompent cette opposition. Les Pakistanais de Bradford font une nette différence entre les événements de 1995 (décrits en termes de légitime défense, droits humains et cit…

  • Islam, Ethnography and Politics: Methodological Issues in Researching amongst West Yorkshire Pakistanis in 2005

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2007•Cited by: 16•References: 8

    Studies on Muslim communities in Britain have flourished in the 1990s and early 2000 mainly in the form of ethno-anthropological accounts. In what is a critical moment for multicultural relations in Britain after September 11th and July 2005 bombings in London, however, social researchers are allegedly struggling in gaining access. The article explores this research scenario through reflection on doctoral fieldwork in the Pakistani community of B…

  • The Myth of Return: Dismissal, Survival or Revival? A Bradford Example of Transnationalism as a Political Instrument

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•New Community•2007•Cited by: 26•References: 21

    This article documents forms of ‘homeland’ attachment and analyses their significance among second- and third-generation British Pakistanis by comparison with the ‘myth of return’ that characterised the early pioneer phase of Pakistani migration to Britain. ‘Homeland attachment’ for young British Pakistanis is constituted through school holidays spent in Pakistan, participation there in life-cycle rituals involving the wider kinship network, and …

  • Celebrating 20 years of the Lake District Pakistan Workshop

    Marta Bolognani, Stephen M Lyons et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary South Asia•2006

    This special issue of Contemporary South Asia celebrates 20 years of the annual Pakistan Workshop held in the Lake District of England. This event, the primary raison d'être for the Pakistan Studies Group, has consistently provided a forum for researchers of Pakistan, the Pakistani Diaspora, and Muslim groups of other South Asian countries to meet and exchange ideas. The main impetus for the Workshop has always come from anthropologists, but repr…

  • Generational interaction and social change in Pakistan

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Anthropology Today•2004

    Pakistan Workshop 2004, The Rook Howe, Cumbria, 7-9 May 2004

  • Visits to the country of origin: How second-generation British Pakistanis shape transnational identity and maintain power asymmetries

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Global Networks•2014•Cited by: 27•References: 33

    In this article, I identify the need for more nuanced approaches to transnational emotional attachment, especially with regard to the second generation. Interviewing second-generation British Pakistanis while on their holidays in Pakistan and comparing the findings with data collected in the UK provides a more realistic exploration of the phenomenon than would have been possible with only narratives collected before and after the trips. In contra…

  • The Myth of Return: Dismissal, Survival or Revival? A Bradford Example of Transnationalism as a Political Instrument

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•New Community•2007•Cited by: 26•References: 21

    This article documents forms of ‘homeland’ attachment and analyses their significance among second- and third-generation British Pakistanis by comparison with the ‘myth of return’ that characterised the early pioneer phase of Pakistani migration to Britain. ‘Homeland attachment’ for young British Pakistanis is constituted through school holidays spent in Pakistan, participation there in life-cycle rituals involving the wider kinship network, and …

  • Marriage migration and integration: Interrogating assumptions in academic and policy debates

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2017•Cited by: 22•References: 69

    In both policy and academic debates in Britain, as elsewhere in Europe, concern is increasingly expressed over the implications of spousal immigration for ‘integration’. Continued practices of ‘homeland’ transnational marriage within some ethnic minority communities, in particular, are presented as problematic, and new immigration restrictions likely to particularly affect such groups are justified on the grounds of promoting integration. The evi…

  • Being a freshie is (not) cool: Stigma, capital and disgust in British Pakistani stereotypes of new subcontinental migrants

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2017•Cited by: 22•References: 31

    Intra-ethnic discrimination, in the form of stereotyping of recent migrants by settled ethnic minorities, has been interpreted as internalized racism, displacing stigma and negotiation of local hierarchies of belonging. Stereotypes of 'Fresh off the Boat' migrants construct cultural boundaries and assertions of belonging, offering clues to processes of identity-making where ethnicity is complicated by ongoing migration. In British Pakistani portr…

  • The Emergence of Lifestyle Reasoning in Return Considerations among British Pakistanis

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•International Migration•2014•Cited by: 20•References: 5

    This article discusses the growing popularity of lifestyle reasoning in return considerations among Pakistani migrants and their children in Britain. Although lifestyle arguments are by no means new to scholarship on return migration, I argue that British Pakistanis' settlement history has led to return reasoning beyond purely economic considerations. Changes in status, power, and position, with respect to both countries of origin and settlement,…

  • Islam, Ethnography and Politics: Methodological Issues in Researching amongst West Yorkshire Pakistanis in 2005

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2007•Cited by: 16•References: 8

    Studies on Muslim communities in Britain have flourished in the 1990s and early 2000 mainly in the form of ethno-anthropological accounts. In what is a critical moment for multicultural relations in Britain after September 11th and July 2005 bombings in London, however, social researchers are allegedly struggling in gaining access. The article explores this research scenario through reflection on doctoral fieldwork in the Pakistani community of B…

  • Marrying 'in'/marrying 'out'? Blurred boundaries in British Pakistani marriage choices

    Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•New Community•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 42

    The widespread practice of transnational marriage among British Pakistanis has often been understood through an ethnic lens, as emphasising the boundaries of ethnicity and reaffirming bonds of kinship to Pakistan. Within British Pakistani families, however, a diversity of marriages may exist, with some siblings married transnationally, whilst others have partners from within the UK. Marriage between cousins or more distant relatives is common, bu…

  • The changing public face of Muslim associations in Britain: Coming together for common ‘social’ goals

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani, P Statham•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 12

    This article examines the Muslim organizational field in Britain based on interviews with activists. It applies a political opportunity perspective to address the degree to which organizations’ aims and activities have been shaped by the contextual factors confronting them, or more independently, by ‘bottom-up’ beliefs and commitments drawn from their relationships to the community. Specifically, the empirical part examines, first, how activists …

  • British Pakistani women's use of the ‘religion versus culture’ contrast: A critical analysis

    Marta Bolognani, Jody Mellor•ARTICLE•Culture and Religion•2012•Cited by: 10•References: 23

    This paper's aim is to highlight a series of problems related to data collection, analysis and ethics of research on British Pakistani women and their marriage choices. The authors will argue that much of the literature on this topic has stopped one step short of critically engaging with the ubiquitous and thus meaningful ‘religion versus culture’ paradigm. This leads both to a sort of acceptance of the existence, but especially of the effectiven…

  • Return Imaginaries and Political Climate: Comparing Thinking About Return Mobilities Among Pakistani Origin Migrants and Descendants in Norway and the UK

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani, Marta Bivand Erdal•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 36

    The political climate on immigration and diversity in various European societies has previously been analysed in relation to media representations, policy regimes and public opinion. This paper focuses more narrowly on how political climates affect migrant and post-migrant generations, as inhabitants of these European societies. We focus on the impact of ambivalence resulting from perceived lack of recognition as full citizens in European societi…

  • Communities, audiences, and multi-functions: British cultural politics and the showcasing of South Asian art

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•South Asian Popular Culture•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    The development of South Asian arts in the UK has gone from using typical colonial and ‘high culture’ showcases to using particular but still far more ‘mainstream’ formats, and has been publicly subsidised in a number of ways, including through community projects. In many respects, South Asian arts is not a ‘niche product’ any more due to the (mainly political) tension towards creating a distinctively ‘British Asian’ (or BrAsian) rather than a st…

  • Virtual protest with tangible effects? Some observations on the media strategies of the 2007 Pakistani anti-Emergency movement

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Contemporary South Asia•2010•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    On 3rd November 2007 General Parvez Musharraf imposed a State of Emergency on Pakistan. During the State of Emergency the judiciary was turned upside down, the media selectively censored and many lawyers and human rights activists were arrested. While the lower classes remained relatively silent and carried on with their daily routines, an unprecedented movement against Musharraf, but more so pro-democracy and pro-judiciary, swept the country. Th…

  • Damnations: British Pakistanis, British cinema and sociological mimicry

    Marta Bolognani, Erum A Haider et al.•ARTICLE•South Asian Popular Culture•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    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…

  • Star fission: Shoaib Akhtar and fragmentation as transnational celebrity strategy

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Celebrity Studies•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    If we understand ‘the making of celebrity’ as a specific cultural endeavour, transnational celebrity must be viewed as the opportunity (structure) or capacity (agency) to exercise control over fame, at a very high level of cultural complexity, across cultural borders. It would appear that the conditio sine qua non for the longevity of a star is exactly this capacity of transcending one's nation's cultural specificity. In this article, the Guinnes…

  • Generational interaction and social change in Pakistan

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Anthropology Today•2004

    Pakistan Workshop 2004, The Rook Howe, Cumbria, 7-9 May 2004

  • Celebrating 20 years of the Lake District Pakistan Workshop

    Marta Bolognani, Stephen M Lyons et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary South Asia•2006

    This special issue of Contemporary South Asia celebrates 20 years of the annual Pakistan Workshop held in the Lake District of England. This event, the primary raison d'être for the Pakistan Studies Group, has consistently provided a forum for researchers of Pakistan, the Pakistani Diaspora, and Muslim groups of other South Asian countries to meet and exchange ideas. The main impetus for the Workshop has always come from anthropologists, but repr…

  • Les « désordres ethniques » à Bradford (Grande-Bretagne)

    Marta Bolognani, Maurice Blanc•ARTICLE•Espaces et sociétés•2007

    Cet article présente les émeutes ethniques et les dispositifs institutionnels en Grande-Bretagne dans la période récente, puis les « désordres » de Bradford en 1995 et 2001. Si la controverse oppose explications « structurelles » et « culturelles », les données ethnographiques estompent cette opposition. Les Pakistanais de Bradford font une nette différence entre les événements de 1995 (décrits en termes de légitime défense, droits humains et cit…

  • Islam, Ethnography and Politics: Methodological Issues in Researching amongst West Yorkshire Pakistanis in 2005

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2007•Cited by: 16•References: 8

    Studies on Muslim communities in Britain have flourished in the 1990s and early 2000 mainly in the form of ethno-anthropological accounts. In what is a critical moment for multicultural relations in Britain after September 11th and July 2005 bombings in London, however, social researchers are allegedly struggling in gaining access. The article explores this research scenario through reflection on doctoral fieldwork in the Pakistani community of B…

  • The Myth of Return: Dismissal, Survival or Revival? A Bradford Example of Transnationalism as a Political Instrument

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•New Community•2007•Cited by: 26•References: 21

    This article documents forms of ‘homeland’ attachment and analyses their significance among second- and third-generation British Pakistanis by comparison with the ‘myth of return’ that characterised the early pioneer phase of Pakistani migration to Britain. ‘Homeland attachment’ for young British Pakistanis is constituted through school holidays spent in Pakistan, participation there in life-cycle rituals involving the wider kinship network, and …

  • Crime and Muslim Britain: Race, Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis

    Marta Bolognani•BOOK•Crime and Muslim Britain•2009

    The Britain of the early twenty-first century has become consumed by heightened concerns about violent crime and terrorism in relation to Muslim communities in the West. Here Marta Bolognani fills a major gap in criminology and diaspora studies through an exhaustive investigation into crime among British Pakistanis. Through detailed ethnographic observation and interview data, Bolognani shows how Bradford Pakistanis’ perceptions of crime and cont…

  • Crime and Muslim Britain: Race, Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis (Library of Crime and Criminology)

    Marta Bolognani•BOOK•Crime and Muslim Britain•2009

    The Iranian revolution of 1979 overhauled not only the foundations of Iranian society, religion and politics, but also our understanding of the role of religion in modern government. Here Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi takes us on an enlightening journey, showing that the revolution unintentionally opened up the public sphere to competing interpretations of Islam. Far from being the exclusive preserve of high-ranking seminarians as before, in contempora…

  • South Asian media in the Noughties

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Contemporary South Asia•2010•References: 4

    This introductory note identifies the scope of this special issue as a challenge to predominantly technology-based analysis of media in South Asia. By exploring the ways in which specific power structures, multiple cultural and social milieus, and the flourishing of technological possibilities play out in the different case studies, these authors reject the view of media as an all-encompassing power by highlighting different cases where a disjunc…

  • Virtual protest with tangible effects? Some observations on the media strategies of the 2007 Pakistani anti-Emergency movement

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Contemporary South Asia•2010•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    On 3rd November 2007 General Parvez Musharraf imposed a State of Emergency on Pakistan. During the State of Emergency the judiciary was turned upside down, the media selectively censored and many lawyers and human rights activists were arrested. While the lower classes remained relatively silent and carried on with their daily routines, an unprecedented movement against Musharraf, but more so pro-democracy and pro-judiciary, swept the country. Th…

  • Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2010

  • Communities, audiences, and multi-functions: British cultural politics and the showcasing of South Asian art

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•South Asian Popular Culture•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    The development of South Asian arts in the UK has gone from using typical colonial and ‘high culture’ showcases to using particular but still far more ‘mainstream’ formats, and has been publicly subsidised in a number of ways, including through community projects. In many respects, South Asian arts is not a ‘niche product’ any more due to the (mainly political) tension towards creating a distinctively ‘British Asian’ (or BrAsian) rather than a st…

  • Damnations: British Pakistanis, British cinema and sociological mimicry

    Marta Bolognani, Erum A Haider et al.•ARTICLE•South Asian Popular Culture•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 6

    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…

  • Star fission: Shoaib Akhtar and fragmentation as transnational celebrity strategy

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Celebrity Studies•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    If we understand ‘the making of celebrity’ as a specific cultural endeavour, transnational celebrity must be viewed as the opportunity (structure) or capacity (agency) to exercise control over fame, at a very high level of cultural complexity, across cultural borders. It would appear that the conditio sine qua non for the longevity of a star is exactly this capacity of transcending one's nation's cultural specificity. In this article, the Guinnes…

  • Good culture, bad culture…no culture! The implications of culture in urban regeneration in Bradford, UK

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Critical Social Policy•2012

    This paper shows how regeneration policies in Bradford (UK) have over the years been modified following local, national and international events since 1997. It will be argued that policy makers reacted to public perceptions of the city itself and of its large Muslim community in three phases: celebration of local minority ethnic culture; pathologization of the same; exclusion of any cultural element from the city’s self-projection. The paper sugg…

  • British Pakistani women's use of the ‘religion versus culture’ contrast: A critical analysis

    Marta Bolognani, Jody Mellor•ARTICLE•Culture and Religion•2012•Cited by: 10•References: 23

    This paper's aim is to highlight a series of problems related to data collection, analysis and ethics of research on British Pakistani women and their marriage choices. The authors will argue that much of the literature on this topic has stopped one step short of critically engaging with the ubiquitous and thus meaningful ‘religion versus culture’ paradigm. This leads both to a sort of acceptance of the existence, but especially of the effectiven…

  • The changing public face of Muslim associations in Britain: Coming together for common ‘social’ goals

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani, P Statham•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2013•Cited by: 10•References: 12

    This article examines the Muslim organizational field in Britain based on interviews with activists. It applies a political opportunity perspective to address the degree to which organizations’ aims and activities have been shaped by the contextual factors confronting them, or more independently, by ‘bottom-up’ beliefs and commitments drawn from their relationships to the community. Specifically, the empirical part examines, first, how activists …

  • The Emergence of Lifestyle Reasoning in Return Considerations among British Pakistanis

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•International Migration•2014•Cited by: 20•References: 5

    This article discusses the growing popularity of lifestyle reasoning in return considerations among Pakistani migrants and their children in Britain. Although lifestyle arguments are by no means new to scholarship on return migration, I argue that British Pakistanis' settlement history has led to return reasoning beyond purely economic considerations. Changes in status, power, and position, with respect to both countries of origin and settlement,…

  • Visits to the country of origin: How second-generation British Pakistanis shape transnational identity and maintain power asymmetries

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Global Networks•2014•Cited by: 27•References: 33

    In this article, I identify the need for more nuanced approaches to transnational emotional attachment, especially with regard to the second generation. Interviewing second-generation British Pakistanis while on their holidays in Pakistan and comparing the findings with data collected in the UK provides a more realistic exploration of the phenomenon than would have been possible with only narratives collected before and after the trips. In contra…

  • From myth of return to return fantasy: A psychosocial interpretation of migration imaginaries

    Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Identities•2016

    By referring to the myth of return, migration literature has focused mainly on sociopolitical explanations, neglecting intersubjective dynamics. This paper operates a switch from myth of return to fantasy. This allows the analysis to be detached from the return speculation's outcome. It also recognises the cross-generational endurance of return-thinking as functional to the process of identity-building as part of a migrant's search for well-being…

  • Marriage migration and integration: Interrogating assumptions in academic and policy debates

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnicities•2017•Cited by: 22•References: 69

    In both policy and academic debates in Britain, as elsewhere in Europe, concern is increasingly expressed over the implications of spousal immigration for ‘integration’. Continued practices of ‘homeland’ transnational marriage within some ethnic minority communities, in particular, are presented as problematic, and new immigration restrictions likely to particularly affect such groups are justified on the grounds of promoting integration. The evi…

  • Being a freshie is (not) cool: Stigma, capital and disgust in British Pakistani stereotypes of new subcontinental migrants

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2017•Cited by: 22•References: 31

    Intra-ethnic discrimination, in the form of stereotyping of recent migrants by settled ethnic minorities, has been interpreted as internalized racism, displacing stigma and negotiation of local hierarchies of belonging. Stereotypes of 'Fresh off the Boat' migrants construct cultural boundaries and assertions of belonging, offering clues to processes of identity-making where ethnicity is complicated by ongoing migration. In British Pakistani portr…

  • Return Imaginaries and Political Climate: Comparing Thinking About Return Mobilities Among Pakistani Origin Migrants and Descendants in Norway and the UK

    Open Access•Marta Bolognani, Marta Bivand Erdal•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 36

    The political climate on immigration and diversity in various European societies has previously been analysed in relation to media representations, policy regimes and public opinion. This paper focuses more narrowly on how political climates affect migrant and post-migrant generations, as inhabitants of these European societies. We focus on the impact of ambivalence resulting from perceived lack of recognition as full citizens in European societi…

  • Marriage Migration and Integration

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani et al.•BOOK•Marriage Migration and Integration•2020

  • Marrying 'in'/marrying 'out'? Blurred boundaries in British Pakistani marriage choices

    Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani•ARTICLE•New Community•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 42

    The widespread practice of transnational marriage among British Pakistanis has often been understood through an ethnic lens, as emphasising the boundaries of ethnicity and reaffirming bonds of kinship to Pakistan. Within British Pakistani families, however, a diversity of marriages may exist, with some siblings married transnationally, whilst others have partners from within the UK. Marriage between cousins or more distant relatives is common, bu…

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