Kavita Bhanot
Kavita Bhanot is ECR Leverhulme Fellow at Leicester University. She is editor of The Book of Birmingham (Comma Press) and Too Asian, Not Asian Enough (Tindal Street Press) and co-editor of the Bare Lit Anthology (Brain Mill Press) and Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays in Translation (Tilted Axis). Her fiction, non-fiction and academic work has been published, performed and broadcast widely, including the landmark essay 'Decolonise not Diversify'. Her work centres on the politics of reading and writing.
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There were many underlying assumptions veining the documentary, including the supposition that there is something wrong with these men/boys. But above all, ideas of segregation and integration were at its heart, as they tend to be in virtually all mainstream discourse about first, second, third generation ‘immigrants’ (Muslims in particular), forming a kind of accusation: “Why do they segregate themselves?” “Why don’t they integrate?” What is it that ‘they’ are apparently segregated from? What do they not apparently integrate into? The response to this is equally vague, but usually seen as sufficient: Britishness.
There were many underlying assumptions veining the documentary, including the supposition that there is something wrong with these men/boys. But above all, ideas of segregation and integration were at its heart, as they tend to be in virtually all mainstream discourse about first, second, third generation ‘immigrants’ (Muslims in particular), forming a kind of accusation: “Why do they segregate themselves?” “Why don’t they integrate?” What is it that ‘they’ are apparently segregated from? What do they not apparently integrate into? The response to this is equally vague, but usually seen as sufficient: Britishness.