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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access first published online on October 16, 2009
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Parliamentary Affairs, doi:10.1093/pa/gsp036
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© The Author [2009]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government; all rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Who Doesn't Feel British? Divisions over Muslims

Varun Uberoi1

Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Tariq Modood1

Department of Sociology
Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship University of Bristol
Bristol, UK
t.modood{at}bristol.ac.uk

Correspondence: varun.uberoi{at}politics.ox.ac.uk

Politicians increasingly promote Britishness. We thus ask who do they think has difficulty feeling British and why do they think this? Scholars have not yet tried to address these questions and in this article we attempt to do so. Using interviews with former home secretaries, junior ministers and their shadow cabinet counterparts, we examine whether leading politicians think that Muslims have difficulty feeling British. We show that senior members of the main political parties are not only internally divided on this issue, but that a cross-party divide exists and that many of the members of these divisions are unaware of the relevant sociological data.


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