Workbook
For British Bangladeshi Families
Immigration, Identity, and Raising Children Between Two Worlds
You have been building something here without quite writing it down. This is where you start.
For the British Bangladeshi families navigating the space between Bangladeshi cultural identity — its language, faith, and traditions — and the life being built in Britain. Families where the older generation carries one world and the younger generation is growing up inside another.
The Name It First Experience
Your family came from Bangladesh. Or your family has always been in Britain but carries Bangladesh in ways that are hard to name. Either way, there is a gap between what the older generation holds and what the younger generation is growing up inside — and that gap is where your family has been living. This workbook gives your family a structured space to name what British Bangladeshi means in your specific household, what you are choosing to carry forward, and what each generation gets to say. Grounded in Racial Identity Development theory (Cross, Helms), Acculturation Theory (Berry), Intersectionality (Crenshaw), diasporic identity scholarship (Brah, Hall), and research on British Bangladeshi family identity, this workbook moves through immigration, faith, cultural identity, and the agreement your family writes together. You leave with your completed identity document.
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Sample questions
- What word describes the version of your family's Bangladeshi identity that travels forward into the next generation — and what do you notice is getting lost?
- When you look at what your family carries from Bangladesh and what your children are growing up inside in Britain, what do you notice about where those two worlds meet — and where they pull apart?
- What would a family agreement look like if every generation got to name what British Bangladeshi means to them — including the youngest ones?
Research basis
Cross (1971, 1991) Nigrescence Model / Helms (1990) racial identity statuses / Berry (1997) acculturation strategies / Crenshaw (1989, 1991) intersectionality / Brah (1996) Cartographies of Diaspora / Hall (1990) Cultural Identity and Diaspora / Gardner (2002) Age, Narrative, and Migration: The Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London / cultural frameworks of Bengali/Sylheti linguistic identity, Islamic faith, and biradari in British Bangladeshi families / Eade (1989) The Politics of Community: The Bangladeshi Community in East London / British Bangladeshi identity (Glynn, 2002).
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