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Being a young British Iraqi Shii in London: exploring diasporic cultural and religious identities between Britain and Iraq
Journal article

Being a young British Iraqi Shii in London: exploring diasporic cultural and religious identities between Britain and Iraq

Zahra Ali
Contemporary Islam, Vol.13(3), pp.349-367
10/2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-018-0433-y

Abstract

Social Sciences Iraqi Shiism Anthropology Sectarianism Religious Studies, general British Shii Muslims Transnational Shii Islam Sociology of Religion
Relying on an ethnographic research conducted both in the UK and Iraq, this article explores issues of cultural and religious identities among London-based young British Iraqi Shiis. Using Stuart Hall’s notions of ‘articulation’ and ‘new ethnicities’, I analyse how different realities and experiences of space and class shape young British Iraqi Shiis self-identification in relation to socio-political, religious and ethnic belongings.

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