Selected Academic Publications
Society and Politics of Jammu and Kashmir, Palgrave Macmillan
Kashmir is one of the longest-standing conflicts yet to be resolved by the international community. Against this backdrop, the urgency to understand what Jammu and Kashmir means to those who actually belong to its territory has increased. This book not only helps readers navigate subtleties in a complex part of the world but is the first of its kind – written for a global audience from local perspectives, which to date have been sorely lacking.
A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status in Nations and Nationalism
This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence? It applies Morland's framework of demographic engineering to explore these questions.
Navigating racist encounters in the workplace: experiences of young people in Birmingham, Melbourne and Toronto in Ethnic and Racial Studies
This article discusses findings from a four year multisite study funded by the Australian Research Council. Adding to literature on young people and agency, we argue that participants’ decisions to respond to racism are nuanced and thought through, weighing up the “costs” of challenging racial stereotypes and the impact this may have for career progression.
Identity categories and colonial legacies in the British urban space in Social Identities
This article advances conceptual debates regarding identity and marginalisation in valuable ways and informs methodological improvements for representation within data collection systems. It discusses findings from a qualitative study through Brubaker's writing on the inclusion – and exclusion – of identity categories within official data collection exercises, given several communities can be amalgamated as one.
British Muslims and the Census: the need for statistical visibility vis-à-vis government surveillance concerns in Religion, State and Society
The National Census of Population is conducted every 10 years and produces the most comprehensive set of statistics about Muslims living in the United Kingdom. Yet, despite the census data’s utility, research identified concerns on how such statistics can be misconstrued, due to a widespread normalisation of Islamophobia within British society and the media.
Contemplating official categories:
Is the devil in the detail? in Radical Statistics
Why do categories become obsolete? The 2001 National Census of Population included, for the first time since 1851, a category on religious affiliation. This article considers how the meaning attached with becoming an official category has shifted over time, just as collective identity markers are argued to increase and decrease in the salience they are afforded by those who they are meant to represent.
Islamic Universalism or Ethno-nationalism? Exploring identity salience within a Kurdish migrant community in Kurdish Studies
This article examines identity salience among members of a Kurdish Muslim migrant community in England. The study, in contrast to previous research on the Kurdish diaspora, focuses on recently arrived migrants predominantly from Iraqi Kurdistan. In-depth interviews highlight how ethnic repression within sending nations results in greater politicisation of ethnicity - the identity of persecution - and in turn salience over all others.
Ethnic desegregation and ‘resegregation’ in northern English schools in Ethnicities
This article discusses findings on inter- and intra-ethnic friendship choices among students within three schools characterised by varying ethnic composition and levels of diversity. The findings demonstrate how presenting ethnic minority concentrations as self-segregated or resegregated can mask the everyday realities of students. Through using students’ own accounts of negotiating such challenges, this article adds to our understanding of young peoples’ experiences of multi-ethnic school settings.
Exploring the migration in Birmingham by ward concentration and deprivation in Migration Letters
This paper explores the migration within as well as migration to Birmingham. It employs Location Quotients to measure ward concentration and the Multiple Index of Deprivation to measure socio-economic disadvantage. It provides analysis and reflection on the relationship between migration, faith group concentration and deprivation. The findings demonstrate how migration trends differ by socioeconomic disadvantage and group clustering.
The Abrogation Two Years On: Consequences for Jammu and Kashmir. Coventry University
This research paper provides a brief overview of the significance of Articles 370 and 35A; and why their abrogation is problematic for the future of Jammu and Kashmir. This is followed by examples of accounts in which the experiences of local people from both the Jammu province and the Kashmir province were recorded, in order to understand the ground realities of the abrogation and annexation of the state. It then provides an overview of some of the key changes that have occurred within the state since August 5th 2019.
Dialogue in a rapidly changing world: Practitioner assessments of the potency of intercultural dialogue in Journal of Dialogue Studies In 2008 the Council of Europe Ministers of Foreign Affairs set out a new framework for its member states known as Intercultural Dialogue (ICD) which was promoted as a more potent way of connecting communities (Lee, 2016). However, critics claim it is unclear how the approach differs from previous frameworks and how ICD contributes towards unequal platforms for exchange and can reinforce exclusion. This paper examines such concerns by exploring practitioners’ understanding of the concept.
The Everyday Transnational Practices of Migrant Youth: A Transcultural Perspective in Journal of International Migration and Integration
Transnationalism is part of broader globalisation processes and raises important questions in relation to migration, identity, and the very nation-state itself. Using comparative insights from qualitative and quantitative empirical findings in three locations, this paper argues that transnational practices, within an increasingly interdependent and fluid global context, challenges the hyper-securitised discourse around the singularity of political allegiance and identification.
The Ethnic Dimension of Internal Migration in Great Britain using Migration Effectiveness and Spatial Connectivity in Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies
Using Census Special Migration Statistics, this paper explores variations in the propensity to migrate, the effectiveness of net migration in redistributing populations, and the connectivity between places that results from ethnic migration. By decomposing the net migration balances of London boroughs the paper reveals different spatial processes of decentralisation and dispersal as well as centralisation when comparing ethnic groups.
Missing from the ‘minority mainstream’: Pahari-speaking diaspora in Britain in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Pahari speakers form one of the largest non-European diasporas in Britain. Despite their size and over 60 years of settlement, the diaspora is shrouded by confusion regarding official and unofficial categorisations as a collective with a shared ethnolinguistic memory. This has had implications for the recognition of Pahari within mainstream minority language provision. The article explores why Pahari has remained largely absent within discourse on minority languages in Britain.
Islamic schools in the United States and England: Implications for integration and social cohesion in Social Compass
Debates over faith-based schools have resurfaced in recent years, due largely to an increase in Islamic schools in the West and concerns regarding their role vis-a-vis social cohesion. Such debates typically occur in the public and political realms, with less academic attention to the issue. This study addresses this gap by focusing on Islamic schools in the US and England. The findings indicate that attending Islamic schools does not necessarily translate into greater levels of religiosity.
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