Being Deaf and being other things:young Asian people and negotiating identities

W.I.U. Ahmad; K. Atkin; L. Jones

doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00308-2

Being Deaf and being other things:young Asian people and negotiating identities

W.I.U. Ahmad, K. Atkin, L. Jones

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Abstract

This paper explores how Asian deaf young people negotiate identity claims against the backdrop of deaf politics, ethnicity, religion, gender and age. The paper is based on a qualitative study of Asian (mainly Pakistani Muslim) deaf young people and their parents in the UK. The findings provide little support for notions of singular or primary identities (as, for example, ‘Deaf’ people or ‘Muslims’) which may make other identity claims irrelevant. Instead, young people's identifications were multiple, complex and contingent. However, resources and structures remained important for identifications to be cultivated and gaining legitimisation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1757-1769
Number of pages	12
Journal	Social Science & Medicine
Volume	55
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00308-2
Publication status	Published - Nov 2002

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