Ashraf Hoque
Ashraf Hoque is an associate professor of social anthropology at University College London. He is the author of Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton (UCL Press, 2019) and Mafia Raj: the Rule of Bosses in South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2018), and a co-aditor of the “Anthropology of Islam” book series at Edinburgh University Press.

The historic struggle for housing by Bengali migrants in London
Shabna Begum’s ‘From Sylhet to Spitalfields’ offers a searing history of Bengali squatters in 1970s East London, and a chilling reminder of how migrants continue to be treated by a hostile British state
Aug 25, 2023

Britain’s Banglatown
How the Bangladeshi community has come to shape local politics in Tower Hamlets.