migrant identities

• multiple sources of identity

  -family

  -friends

  -neighbourhood

  -ethnicity

  -religion

  -nationality
• what does identity give us

  sense of belonging of who we are
• migrants source of identity

  -country & origin may provide additional/alternative source of identity

  -develop hybrid identities made up of two or more different sources
• John Eade

  -second generation Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain created hierarchal identities

  -saw themselves as Muslims first

  -then Bengali

  -then British
• how do others act towards those with hybrid identities?

  -challenge identity claims

  -accuse them of not 'fitting in'