Kinship and Continuity Pakistana Families in Britain

Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the present day. Alison Shaw addresses the dynamics of migration, patterns of residence and kinship, ideas about health and illness, and notions of political and religious authority, and discusses the transformations and continuities of the lives of British Pakistanis against the backdrop of rural Pakistan and local socio-economic changes. This is a fully updated, revised edition of the book first published in 1988.Shaw, Alison is the author of 'Kinship and Continuity Pakistana Families in Britain' with ISBN 9789058230751 and ISBN 9058230759.