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Publication details [#60266]
Hussain, Serena. 2015. Missing from the ‘minority mainstream’: Pahari-speaking diaspora in Britain. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (5) : 483–497.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
Though Pahari speakers constitute one of the biggest non-European ethnic diasporas in Britain, with over 60 years of settling, they remain mainly misconceived as a community with a common ethnolinguistic recollection. This paper elucidates why Pahari has stayed mostly absent from minority language discourses in Britain and documents efforts from within the diaspora to deal with this lacuna via the representation and promotion of Pahari within a British setting.