Diaspora Diversity

Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain and the United States

Bibliographic Data

ID4838373
AuthorsNazli Kibria (0000-0003-0691-0104, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume18
Issue1-2
Pages138-158
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1044-2057 • E-ISSN: 1911-1568
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/dsp.2015.0000
OpenAlexW4231628634
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This article offers a comparative analysis of the multifaceted dimensions of generation in the Bangladeshi Muslim diaspora communities of Britain and the United States. Studies of Muslim immigrant communities in North America and Western Europe have noted a growing social, cultural, and political chasm between the immigrant foreign-born and their non-immigrant second-generation progeny. At the heart of this “Muslim generation gap” are the intensified engagements and identifications of youth with pan-national Muslim institutions in host societies, coupled with their distancing from the ethnonational ones that anchor the immigrant generation. In the case of the Bangladeshi-origin communities in Britain and the United States the gap has emerged quite differently, in ways that reflect the differential influence of the “1971 generation”—a political generation formed in relation to Bangladesh—in the two settings

Diaspora · Distancing · Ethnology · First generation · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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