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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Route Publishing (8 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1901927326
  • ISBN-13: 978-1901927320
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 178,152 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The aftermath of the Bradford Riots in 2001 and subsequent reports on how the city is constructed, provoked novelist and academic M Y Alam into generating a report of his own. As part of the research process, he spent time interviewing British Pakistani men and gathered their views on issues which are generally prone to misrepresentation elsewhere. Over a period of time these sessions became much more than the usual researcher and research subject kind of relationship. In some cases, they developed into full blown conversations amongst friends. Made In Bradford compiles a series of transcripts from those conversations and paints a vivid picture of everyday life that reads almost as a counter-narrative to the prevailing direction of current debates. Here, men talk about issues such as forced marriage, drugs and criminality, employment, racism, political representation, the fall out from the London bombings, faith and freedom, along with the notion of home and belonging. The openness within the texts is a refreshing antidote to the recent, more widespread and shameful stigmatisation of a people within our own communities. Made In Bradford is an important book of its time.

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M Y Alam is the author of two novels, Annie Potts is Dead and Kilo, and has had several short stories published. He is also a researcher and teacher at the University of Bradford working in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stories we should be hearing everyday, 8 Oct 2007
By E. H. Shember "MsCrow" (Manchester) - See all my reviews
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I have just finished this book having read it back to back in two short sittings - unusual for me to read so fast but it tells you how compulsive it was.

Made in Bradford is a timely book and one that excels in its simplicity - a presentation of interviews with Bradford born/resident British-Pakistani men; too often the voices we hear the least of in the media stories. It reads with the lightest of editing (though one must remain aware of the author's friendships with the interviewees) and very much like talk-head monologues; each chapter a flow of consciousness from an interviewee about a particular subject.

Though part of a larger academic study, Made in Bradford refreshingly is stripped of the research and just presents the interviews with no commentary for you to make of what you will. I found the interviews funny, compelling, familiar, energising, angry, mundane and more. In summary, stories of everyday lives, making sense of something bigger.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "Whether Made in Bradford or Sheffield: Life can be a Full-Circle"!, 18 May 2009
By Matloub Husayn-Ali-Khan "Matloub" (South Yorkshire, Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
On reading this book "Made in Bradford" reminded me instantly of: "Made in Sheffield" in terms of the world famous Sheffield Steel & the Stainless Steel Cutlery! As some one who has written about life and working in Sheffield's East End "My life has turned Full-Circle" and not to dissimilar to the chapter at (p201) on "Full-Circle" by MY Alam which discusses the 7/7 bombings in London. Although in my writings I talk about starting to work in an area I first lived in when I first came to Sheffield in 1967.

Due to these ironic coincidences, I found the book to be very straightforward and easy to read and I read it back to back very quickly. I could easily relate to the interviews with the Bradford born/resident British-Pakistanis men and I felt their anger, joviality and sense of seriousness of the issues at hand like drugs, criminality, forced marriages, racism, employment, politics, faith and freedom.

The book is a refreshing change to the recent media hype on riots within Muslim communities in Britain prior to 9/11 in summer of 2001.

One omission in the book is that I felt that the Pakistani men could easily have been "Pakistani-Kashmiris" of even "Azad Kashmiris". There seems to some be inherent bias in the author's viewpoint on not accepting the facts that 70% of Pakistanis in Bradford are "Mirpuris" from Azad Kashmir and yes they have Pakistani passports as well as British Passports - which does not necessarily always makes them feel Pakistani or British for that matter. Also, some of the 7/7 bombers parents originated from Azad Kashmir.

Apart from this, I think the book discusses the lives of young Muslims in Bradford brilliantly and puts into a wider context and at a macro-level.
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