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The large presence of Muslims in Britain today (between 1 and 2 millions, more than half of South Asian, primarily Pakistani, origins) is a result of Commonwealth immigration from the 1950s onwards. This was initially male labour from rural small farm owning and artisan backgrounds seeking to meet the demand for unskilled and semi-skilled industrial workers in the British economy, with wives and children arriving from about the 1970s. The proportion of urban professionals among South Asian Muslims was small, though it increased with the arrival of political refugees from East Africa in the late 1960s and 1970s (though the majority of this group were Hindus and Sikhs).
Some of the work on which this paper is based was made possible by the ESRC award R000222124, for which I am grateful. Further details of this ESRC project, entitled Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy, are available at http://www.regard.ac.uk. This paper was originally written as a chapter in N. Alsayyad and M. Castells (eds.), Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation (New York: Lexington Books, 2002). A shorter French version of this paper is available in Social Compass, 47 (1), March (2000).
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Some of the work on which this paper is based was made possible by the ESRC award R000222124, for which I am grateful. Further details of this ESRC project, entitled Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy, are available at http://www.regard.ac.uk. This paper was originally written as a chapter in N. Alsayyad and M. Castells (eds.), Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture and Citizenship in the Age of Globalisation (New York: Lexington Books, 2002). A shorter French version of this paper is available in Social Compass, 47 (I), March (2000).
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Modood, T. (2004). The Place of Muslims in British Secular Multiculturalism. In: Ghanea, N. (eds) The Challenge of Religious Discrimination at the Dawn of the New Millennium. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5968-7_11
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