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‘Bangladeshis in London and Tower Hamlets: Community Activism and the Local State’

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Abstract

A chapter in J. Duerrschmidt, M. Caselli and J. Eade (2024), Migrants’ (Im)mobilities in European Urban Contexts: Global Pandemic and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan. The chapter introduces the London borough of Tower Hamlets and its Bangladeshi population before describing the Covid 19 timeline and its differential impact in the UK and on the Bangladeshi residents in Tower Hamlets. The focus then shifts to the role played by Bangladeshi 'Covid Champions', community centres and political activists, the vaccination campaign from late 2020, economic considerations, family dynamics and generation, state regulations and Muslim funerals, middle class residents in the borough before ending with the conclusion.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication(Im)mobilities in European Urban Contexts: Global Pandemic and Beyond
EditorsJoerg Duerrschmidt, Marco Caselli, John Eade
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ChapterChap. 2
Pagespp. 25-48
Number of pages23
ISBN (Electronic)978 3-031 53773-8
ISBN (Print)978 3-031 53772-1
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Publication series

NameEurope in a Global Context
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

Keywords

  • Covid 19
  • minority ethnic groups
  • Stuttgart
  • London
  • Milan

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