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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Immigrants


Shaheen Ali is a former Pakistani cabinet minister, a human rights and Islamic lawyer and , currently, Professor of Law at Warwick University. She goes back n forth to Pakistan a great deal and says she is "Shocked by the way a lot of Pakistani communities operate here ( in the uk ) . I can't relate to them , it's as of time stopped for them when they got off the plane."The immigration clampdown of the 1970s, she believes , had an unintended effect: "Many men who were working here in the 1950s and 1960 thought they had better bring their families while they could . So families left their vilagges, got on the plane and got off again , having seen nothing in between . You had women in their forties n fifties who were suddenly incompetent. They couldn't even buy groceries. So they stuck together. Clannishness became the norm. A few households , became very important. Many of thse people were hard-working and , with the strong pound, they made money , they wanted to keep it inside the clan.


So very true isn't it? I would love to carry out a research on the problems faced by Pakistani immigrants living in different countries of the world . That would make an interesting topic , don't you think ? I'm always on the look-out for such stuff so do tell me if you come across over something that is even distinctly related to my fantasised research topic.


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