Shii News – ‘Proud to be Alevi’ (London, 27.10.17)

From ‘Sort of Muslim’ to ‘Proud to be Alevi’: Young British Alevis and Identity

This presentation explains how the negative identity of second-generation Alevis in the UK has been transmitted intergenerationally, linked to their history of persecuted exclusion in Turkey and to the transnational settlement of Alevi migrants in the UK, and how this sense of marginalisation and invisibility in the receiving country can be addressed.

Posted in: Field-specific (academic), Great Britain