ABSTRACT
With over half of Scotland's 32,000 Pakistanis residing in the Glasgow area, this West coast city represents a fascinating example of how Scottish-Pakistani identities are not only becoming imprinted on Scotland's broader cultural landscape, but how they are also having novel effects on the prevailing social geography of the city. Of the few geographical engagements with race and ethnicity in a British suburban setting, Naylor and Ryan's historical account of the building of the London Fasl Mosque Planned, built and opened in the 1920s in the suburban borough of Wandsworth, the Fasl Mosque was London's first ever purpose built mosque. Since the history of British suburban development is inescapably multiethnic, the authors see any attempts at fixing British suburbia around a unitary white identity as ill-founded. However some questions may be asked of Naylor and Ryan's approach. Suburban Pakistani communities are the outcome of much more than recent dispersals of culturally hybrid, professionalizing young Pakistanis.
