Manchester
Select Bibliography:
Anwar, M. (1979) The Myth of Return: Pakistanis in Britain, London: Heinemann.
Cantle, T. (2006) Review of Community Cohesion in Oldham, London: Institute of Community Cohesion, at http://www.oldham.gov.uk/cantle-review-final-report.pdf
Hussain, Z. (2006) The Curry Mile, Manchester: Suitcase.
Kalra, V. (2000) From Textiles Mills to Taxi Ranks: experiences of migration, labour and social change, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Macdonald, *. (1989) Murder in the Playground: the Burnage report(report of the Macdonald Inquiry into racism and racial violence in Manchester schools) London: Longsight.
Ritchie, D. (2001) Oldham Independent Review at http://www.oldhamir.org.uk/OIR%20Report.pdf
Thompson, A. and Begum, R. (2005) Asian Britishness: A study of first generation Asian migrants in Greater Manchester, Working paper 4 of the 'asylum and migration' series. http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=261
Werbner, P. (1990) The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis, Oxford: Berg. http://p.werbner.googlepages.com/ selected online articles of Professor Pnina Werbner including Chapter 2 of The Migration Process (1990) a book about Pakistanis in Manchester
Werbner, P. (2002) Imagined Diasporas Among Manchester Muslims, Oxford: James Currey.
- Oral Histories
- Information on Tameside Council's 'Here to Stay' project - a Heritage Lottery Funded HLF project to record the memories of people who came to Tameside from the Indian sub-continent in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
20 minute video about the Tameside 'Here to Stay' project
http://www.racearchive.org.uk/ The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust aims for the creation of a racially just society and amongst other things organises local history projects that document the experiences of minority communities in Manchester
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/stories/story458/story458.htm?identifier=stories/story458/story458.htm an outline of research on The Asian Youth Movements, 1976-1987, by Dr Anandi Ramamurthy, University of Central Lancashire
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/leisure/new/lh40.htm Black and Asian History at Tameside Local Studies & Archives Unit. See also, http://www.tameside.tv/asian.htm
- Culture and Arts
- Work by Shamshad Khan, whose poetry has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and a link to her book 'Megalomaniac'
Moving Manchester - a project that explores creative writing from Greater Manchester that has been informed and influenced by the experience of migration. It is a research project that focuses on work in English published since 1960.
Milapfest - South Asian Arts Festival & Development Agency
Media
Asian News - the Guardian Media Group's first publication aimed at an Asian audience
Rajinder Dudrah, 'Diasporic Bollywood Cinema Going as South Asian Presence'
Literary and Cultural Production:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester/ AHRC project at Lancaster University on how the experience of migration has informed the work of writers in Greater Manchester from 1960. Includes searchable database of authors, titles, etc
http://www.shorelines.org.uk/ Online literary magazine and agency based in Manchester promoting the writing of migrants and their descendents
http://www.suitcasebooks.info/index.php?file=books&id=1#extract homepage of Zahid Hussain, author of The Curry Mile which takes its name from the famous stretch of restaurants in Rusholme, Manchester. Includes an extract of the novel.
http://uk.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7354, introducing Manchester based poet, Shamshad Khan. See also audio at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/womad2004/world_wide_unplugged.shtml
Black and Asian History at Tameside Local Studies and Archive Unit
Burhan Wazir - Born in Manchester but loyal to Lahore
Indian Association, Manchester
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