Observation and fieldnotes in Dewsbury

Dewsbury fieldnotes

The migrant group is often seen as the minority community in the host country. However, in Dewsbury, migrants are not invisible. The colour of the skin, the costumes they wear, and the scarfs Muslim women put on their faces make them visible on the main streets. Most grocery stores or small cafes and restaurants are run by migrants, establishing a migrant enclave in the local area. 

I stayed Dewsbury for several days. As I can see, most of them are Muslims and Indians. A judgmental question comes: ‘Are the Britons tolerant?’ I think so, and I will say they have to, if they consider themselves a leading Western democratic country. The migration history in the British past has been written with ethnic conflicts which are hardly avoid in terms of differences of social status, political power, language and cultures between the locals and the outsiders. 

Migration to the UK is part of aftermaths of the British Empire and migrants have the right to remain their own cultures, including religions. Many argue that this policy is simply the demonstration of the discourse of multiculturalism. However, migrants here seem quite enjoy their new life. 

Dewsbury is in West Yorkshire, 20-minute train to Leeds City, just like ‘Bolton to Manchester’. Some places like Dewsbury are listed on the top 10 most deprived in the UK, it is not so surprising that the price of the house in this old mill town is seemingly very low in the country so that migrants could more possibly afford the costly UK life. 

As a visitor to Dewsbury, I totally agree that many things are relatively cheaper. If you pass by Dewsbury, Dewsbury Sunday market, Sainsbury, Iceland and Asda with enough parking spaces, could offer you a few bargains. Interestingly, Dewsbury library has some of いとう じゅんじ famous comic books. have read them all there last year. Luckily, all the libraries are going to reopen in this month.

迪斯伯里

移民群體通常被視為東道國的少數民族社區。但是，在迪斯伯里，移民並不是隱形的。膚色，穿著服飾以及穆斯林婦女戴在臉上的圍巾使它們在主要街道上可以見到。大多數雜貨店或小型咖啡館和餐館都是由移民經營的，在當地建立了移民領域。

我在迪斯伯里住了幾天。如我所見，其中大多數是穆斯林和印度人。一個判斷性的問題來了：“英國人寬容嗎？”我想是的，如果他們認為自己是西方領先的民主國家，我會說他們必須這樣做。英國過去的移民歷史寫有種族衝突，就當地人和外人之間的社會地位，政治權力，語言和文化差異而言，這是不可避免的。移民會到英國是大英帝國後果的一部分，移民有權保留自己的文化，包括宗教。許多人認為，這一政策只是展示多元文化話語的表象。但是，這裡的移民似乎很享受新生活。

迪斯伯里（Dewsbury）位於西約克郡，距利茲市（Leeds City）僅20分鐘火車路程，就像“從博爾頓到曼徹斯特（from Bolton to Manchester）”一樣。像Dewsbury這樣的一些地方被列為英國最貧窮的十大城市，這並不奇怪，這個古老的磨坊鎮的房屋價格在該國似乎很低，這樣移民就更有可能負擔昂貴的英國生活。

作為Dewsbury的訪客，我完全同意很多東西都相對地便宜。如果您路過Dewsbury，Dewsbury 假日市場，Sainsbury，Iceland和Asda，這些地方都有足夠的停車位，您可以買到一些特價品。有趣的是，迪斯伯里圖書館藏有一些著名的伊藤潤二漫畫集。 我去年在那裡把全部都看過。 幸運的是，本月所有圖書館都將重新開放。