Lives in Translation: Sikh Youth as British Citizens

In Lives in Translation, Kathleen Hall investigates the cultural politics of immigration and citizenship, education and identity—formation among Sikh youth whose parents migrated to England from India and East Africa. Legally British, these young people encounter race as a barrier to becoming truly "English." Hall breaks with conventional ethnographies about immigrant groups by placing this paradox of modern citizenship at the center of her study, considering Sikh immigration within a broad...