Migrants to Citizens
Bangladeshi Women in Tower Hamlets, London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2997475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Gavron (Young Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 69-81 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue européenne des migrations internationales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0765-0752 • E-ISSN: 1777-5418 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/remi.2515 |
| OpenAlex | W2061196827 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
The "East End" of London is one of the most studied parts of the United Kingdom.The research discussed here took place in the 1990s in the present borough of Tower Hamlets, which was formed from the three old boroughs of Bethnal Green, Stepney and Poplar, three of the "hamlets" just beyond the walls of the old City of London and near the "Tower" of London.From the nineteenth century, novelists (Morrison, 1896), social reformers (Booth, 1902) and, later, sociologists and commentators (for example Banton, 1955 ; Samuel, 1981;Cornwell, 1984), have used the East End as their laboratory, to examine the social and economic activity of this part of the capital city, at one time the largest working-class urban enclave in the world, and for centuries the point of arrival (Bermant, 1975) and settlement of numerous immigrants.The most significant immigrant communities to settle in this part of London over the past four centuries were the French Huguenots refugees, then Irish labour migrants, later, in the late nineteenth century, Jews from Russia and eastern Europe and, most recently, Bangladeshis from Sylhet, in the north-east of the country.The best-known studies of the area are probably those carried out by Michael Young and Peter Willmott in the 1950s (Young & Willmott, 1957, 1973; Willmott, 1966) and by the social historian of the nineteenth-century East End, William Fishman (1981, 1988). MethodologyI was fortunate in being able to work with Michael Young in the 1990s, at the Institute of Community Studies, on a restudy (Dench, Gavron & Young, 2006) of his famous book, Family and Kinship in East London (1957).A principal source of data for the restudy and for my own research was a survey of 799 residents of the old borough of Bethnal Green, selected at random from the electoral register.The survey was carried out in 1992 and initial data analysed by BJM Ltd.Information about contact with members of respondents' families was gathered for 2 565 people living within the 799 households, and for a total of 8 370 people including those living outside the respondents' Migrants to Citizens
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 2005 - 2013 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |