In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they
cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head …

Max Weber ([1927] 1981, sec. 6C) briefly addressed the sociology of “alien traders” in
comparative economic development. He thus founded what later became known as …

Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology,
Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion …

The literature of ethnic ownership economies descends from middleman minority theory, a
subject it continues to include. However, ethnic economy literature now more broadly …

Throughout history, fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces
determining the political, economic and social ramifications of the production, distribution …

For more than a decade, on catwalks in Paris, Milan, and New York, and in living rooms from
San Francisco to London, Asia has been chic. Asian stylistic accents and lifestyle elements …

INTRODUCTION writing in the eighteenth century, Mirza Itesa Modeen described the
fascination that his 'costume'aroused in Britain, adding that he,'who went to see a spectacle …

Fallon G. and Berman Brown R.(2004) Supporting ethnic community businesses: lessons
from a West Midlands Asian business support agency, Reg. Studies 38, 137–148. This …

Abstract The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and
reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora …

HIJAB STORIES Choice, politics, fashion a rejection of, existing and localised practices. This
syncretism, characteristic of contemporary 'everyday'religion in other faiths (McGuire 2008; …