Arabs in Exile: Yemeni Migrants in Urban Britain

Abstract

Part 1 migration and its contexts: Arab migration - an overview, immigrants in Britain, the backgkround, disaster of the twentieth century. Part 2 The first migration - the ports: Cardiff - Tiger Bay and Bilad al-Welsh, the 1919 riots, Sheikh Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi, Cardiff in the 1970s, South shields - the Mill Dam riots and beyond, Liverpool - on street of the Part 3 Yemenis in industrial cities - the pattern of the 1970s: an immigrant minority, the postwar influx, industrial employment, a Yemeni factory, housing and social conditions, women - absent and present, social problems - al-Tax and Haqq al-Qahwa anxieties of the mid 1970s - racism and economic depression. Part 4 A workers' organization: nationalist movements and immigrant activity, the emergence of political organizations, function and structure of the YWU, union activities, a political orientation. Part 5 A community in transition - the Yemenis and the 1980s: factors for change - British and Yemeni, a community revitalized - the case of Sheffield, South Shields - beyond the recession, in the shadow of the tower - the Yemenis in London, unwelcome attentions - Killer drug and Brides for sales'. Part 6 The Invisible Arabs: Yemenis and South Asians - characteristics shared, the Islamic dimension, the distinctiveness of the Yemenis. Appendices 1: correspondence concerning the building of mosques in Cardiff and South shields, 1938-9. 2: Sheffield welfare advice centre constitution, 1985.

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