The Cypriot Community in London

The UK’s shifting diasporic landscape: negotiating ethnolinguistic heterogeneity in Greek complementary schools post-2010

“…From 1955until 1962 was within the top four countries of origin of Commonwealth migrants with the West Indies, India and Pakistan (HC 18 March 1965). By 1964, the UK's Cypriot community had grown to 78,476 people compared to 10,208 people in 1951 (George & Millerson 1967 Most migrants in the 1940s and 1950s were young, between the ages of 15 and 24, coming from rural areas of Cyprus equipped with low-and medium-skill sets (manual workers, farmers, tailors, shoemakers). Most were men, half of whom married.…”

Christianity: Oppressor and Liberator? Reflections on Black Theology and the Religious Experiences of U.K. African-Caribbean Elders

“…This accords with their observed close involvement with Greek-Cypriot cultural activities, rather than with politics. However, their conspicuous ways of preserving their heritage foster a stronger sense of ethnic identity than the London migrants', mirroring the comparisons drawn by George-Millerson (1967), Oakley (1970), Constandinides (1993) and Anthias (1992) between London migrants and the even less ethnically-aware mainland Cypriots.…”

“…Notwithstanding work looking at Cypriots' sense of belonging both in migration and Cyprus itself as a collective, cultural memory expression (regardless of their ethnic prefix, i.e. Turkish or Greek before the Cypriot), pertinent research has recently emphasised collective memory as a means of constructing a sense of belonging in a variety of environments and social statuses in native, migrant (George and Millerson, 1967;Constandinides, 1977;Robins and Aksoy, 2001;Teerling and King, 2011;Gulmez, 2012;Navaro-Yashin, 2012), and the native urban and rural habitus (Skoutella, 2007). None of this work has focused on individualism and nostalgia, and research on UK Cypriot migrants has largely been confined to London; Birmingham has not yet been covered other than in my research.…”

Diaspora Mobilisation and Belonging in the UK: The Case of the Iraqi Diaspora in the Aftermath of the 2003 Intervention

“…This accords with their observed close involvement with Greek-Cypriot cultural activities, rather than with politics. However, their conspicuous ways of preserving their heritage foster a stronger sense of ethnic identity than the London migrants', mirroring the comparisons drawn by George-Millerson (1967), Oakley (1970), Constandinides (1993) and Anthias (1992) between London migrants and the even less ethnically-aware mainland Cypriots.…”

“…Notwithstanding work looking at Cypriots' sense of belonging both in migration and Cyprus itself as a collective, cultural memory expression (regardless of their ethnic prefix, i.e. Turkish or Greek before the Cypriot), pertinent research has recently emphasised collective memory as a means of constructing a sense of belonging in a variety of environments and social statuses in native, migrant (George and Millerson, 1967;Constandinides, 1977;Robins and Aksoy, 2001;Teerling and King, 2011;Gulmez, 2012;Navaro-Yashin, 2012), and the native urban and rural habitus (Skoutella, 2007). None of this work has focused on individualism and nostalgia, and research on UK Cypriot migrants has largely been confined to London; Birmingham has not yet been covered other than in my research.…”