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Staff and Consultants
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Tahir
Abbas
BSc (Econ) MSocSc PhD FRSA
Dr
Tahir Abbas is currently reader in Sociology and
founding Director of Birmingham University’s Centre
for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture. He was
previously Senior Research Officer at the Department
for Constitutional Affairs and the Home Office
(2001-2003), Project Director of Race Equality West
Midlands (1999-2001) and ESRC Research Fellow at the
University of Central England Business School
(1998-1999). He is joint organiser of the Race
Equality West Midlands and the University of
Birmingham’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and
Culture race equality seminar series and serves as
an expert consultant to REWM on Muslim minorities in
Britain. |
Tahir has a
BSc(Econ) from Queen Mary, University of London, a MSocSc in
Economic Development and Policy from the University of
Birmingham, and a PhD in Ethnic Relations from the
University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts and a member of the editorial board of Sociology
(British Sociological Association).
He is
author of the Education of British South Asians:
Ethnicity, Capital and Class Structure (Palgrave, 2004)
and editor of (2005) Muslim Britain: Communities Under
Pressure (Zed) (2007), Islamic Political Radicalism:
a European Perspective (Edinburgh) (2007) and
Immigration and Race Relations: Sociology and John Rex
(I B Tauris), (with Frank Reeves). He has published over
ninety books, journal articles, book chapters and book
reviews.
He is
interested in the sociology of ethnicity, in particular the
role of ethnic and class resources in the mobilisation of
educational and occupational outcomes. His work has
predominantly concentrated on theoretical, conceptual,
empirical and policy-related research on the urban
sociological dynamics of the city of Birmingham’s post-war
ethnic minorities, and the comparative experiences of
different groups, in particular Muslim minorities.
He is
currently working on his forthcoming book, which explores
the notion of ‘British Islam’, analysing economic, social,
and political inequalities, in the context of changing
national cultural discourses around multicultural
citizenship and the impact of the ‘war on terror’ on
relations between peoples and societies of the Muslim and
non-Muslim worlds. His recent writings have generally
focused on education, integration and multiculturalism, and
questions in relation to the radicalisation of British
Muslim minority youth.
He also
has an interest in Ibn Khaldun, and theoretical,
philosophical and historical questions in relations to
social and cultural cohesion, and the relations between
minorities and majorities in different western-Europe
nation-state contexts.
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