Probably more than any other European country, contemporary Britain has been deeply marked by mass immigration and diaspora, in particular from India and Pakistan, and British-Asian Cinema has joined the often rather polemic media debate about the country’s ‘multiculturalism’ as…

This version has had some references removed for republication as a book chapter, but is substantially the same as the definitive published version. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com., This paper draws on a qualitative study that was undertaken…