Summer 2008, and the mill town of Dewsbury hits the news, linked with violence among Asian gangs, drugs and religious extremism. Photographer Nick Danziger and writer Will Pavia went there to try to unravel the identity crisis – British? Muslim? Or British Muslim? – lying behind the headlines Late one evening this summer, a taxi slips on to an empty dual carriageway. The driver leans back in his seat. “They came here to work and they didn’t like it at first,” he says. “They wanted a shag and they made the mistake of bringing their women over. Then they were stuck here and they got used to it. My grandfather tried to go back before he died and he couldn’t stick it.” His grandfather was a Pashtun from northern Pakistan, one of thousands of workers who journeyed from the Indian sub-continent to West Yorkshire in the Fifties and...
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