ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the literature on the socioeconomic position of racialised/ethnicised minorities in Britain into two broad groups; structuralists and culturalists. It seeks to draw continuities with what is called 'marginal labour'. Ethnographic study of minorities in Britain has often stated that its primary reasons for knowledge production are in order to present the actors' frame of reference; to 'focus on the primary concerns of Pakistanis themselves'. The historical connection between Britain and the subcontinent played a major role in migration from Jalandhar to Britain. The radical changes in environment that the babas experienced are sufficient cause to note that contemporary commitments to religion and family are not only a defensive posturing to a hostile host society but the result of an active engagement with their conditions.
