British Asian Youth, Urban Protests and Local Belongingness

Yerel mekânın özellikle göçmen kökenli gençlerin aidiyet duyguları ve kimlik in- şaları üzerinde önemli bir etkisi vardır. Bu makalede yerel mekân deneyimlerinin Britan- ya-Asyalı gençlerin kimlik oluşum sürecini nasıl etkilediğini tartışacağım. Gençler yerelmekânı deneyimlemekte, sınırlarını belirlemekte ve öz-tanımları için kullanmaktadırlar.Tartışma bu gençlerin kültürel, sosyal ve bölgesel olarak belirlenmiş bir mekân içindebağlamsal konumlanmalarını da içermektedir. Gençler aidiyetlerini bu yerel mekândakideneyimlerine göre tanımlamaktadırlar. Onların mekân anlayışları farklı ama iç içe geçmişsosyal, kültürel ve duygusal öğelerle yüklenmiş ifadeleri kapsamaktadır. Bu mekânların sı- nırları bulanıktır ve birbirleriyle örtüşürler. Bu farklı mekânlar ve mekânlarla özdeşleşme- ler gençler tarafından bağlamsal olarak inşa edilirler. Bu durum bazen bölgeselleştirilmiş(territorialized) yerel politikalar ve eylemler yoluyla ifade edilir.

Britanya daki Asyalı Gençlik, Kent Protestoları ve Yerel Aidiyetler

The local space has a constituting impact on the construction of identities andthe feeling of belongingness particularly of the descendants of migrants. In this paper Idiscuss the ways in which local spatial experiences are implicated in the process of identityformation of British Asian youth in Bradford. The youth, experience, demarcate, andutilise the local space for their self-definition. The discussion considers the contextualityof the positioning of those youth within the culturally, socially and territorially markedurban space. The youth define their belongingness according to their experiences ofand within this local space. Their understanding of locality incorporates various thoughintertwined articulations of socially, culturally and emotionally marked spatial space. Theboundaries of those localities are blurred or overlapping. They are constructed by theyouth in context, as are their identifications with different notions of locality. This is attimes expressed through territorialized local politics and actions.

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