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This article looks at the political and conceptual process of trust drawing on a research project exploring the experiences of people who speak little English and thus need interpreters in order to access services. We examine posited solidarity/diversity tensions in the politicisation of notions of general social trust, and debates about the process of trust, including distinctions between abstract and personal trust, the role of familiarity, and the concept of 'active trust', as well as challenges to the functional link between interpretation and expectation in trust. We address the increasing professionalisation of interpreting service provision based on abstract trust, and use case studies to illustrate the complexity of the articulation of trust in interpreters, often involving personal trust, as well as strategies for managing distrust. We conclude that, while trust may be a personal praxis, it takes place in a particular socio-political context that involves asymmetrical relations that focus on particular, minority ethnic, groups.

Forschung mit Teilnehmer(inne)n, die über andere muttersprachliche Kompetenzen verfügen als die im jeweiligen Forschungsprojekt dominanten, erfordert in der Regel die Zusammenarbeit mit Interpret(inn)en und Übersetzer(inne)n, die deren Sprachen beherrschen. Diese führen Interviews durch und erstellen dann Texte in anderen als den Herkunftssprachen der Forschungsteilnehmer(innen). Dennoch werden die Ergebnisse solcher mehrsprachigen Forschungen meist präsentiert, als handele es sich um eine Analyse von Primärdaten. Wir versuchen dementgegen zu zeigen, dass in dieser Weise mehrsprachig erhobene Daten in vieler Hinsicht Ähnlichkeiten mit Sekundäranalysen aufweisen, denn Fragen nach der Bedeutung des Kontextes, in dem die Daten generiert wurden, sind zentral für mehrsprachige Forschung im Besonderen und für Sekundäranalysen im Allgemeinen. Wir veranschaulichen unsere Position an einem Forschungsprojekt, das sich mit den Erfahrungen von Personen befasst, die kaum Englisch sprachen und Übersetzer(innen) brauchten, um Gesundheits-, Erziehungs-, Sozial- oder andere Dienste in Anspruch zu nehmen, und diskutieren an diesem Beispiel, wie wir mit dem Problem des Kontextes umgegangen sind, wenn Daten von Dritten in Sprachen erhoben wurden, derer wir nicht mächtig sind.

Of relevance to a range of social sciences, this text brings together critical perspectives on the intersection of ethnic and gender identities as spatialised forms of embodied social practice, tackling recent themes such as whiteness, masculinity, the body, sexuality, diaspora and globalisation

1. Pre-histories of mobility and immobility : the Bengal delta and the 'eastern zone', 1857-1947 -- 2. Dispositions and destinations in the Bengal Muslim diaspora, 1947-2007 -- 3. Belonging, status, and religion : migrants on the 'peripheries' -- 4. Making home : claiming and contesting diasporic space in Britain -- 5. 'Always/already migrants' : brides, marriage, and migration -- 6. Building a tazia, becoming a paik : 'Bihari' identity amid a hostile Bengali universe -- 7. Rituals of diaspora : the Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space -- 8. Narrating diaspora : community histories and the politics of assimilation.

Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes in the speed, scale, scope and form of international and internal migration, new and resurgent religious and ethnic solidarities, the emergence of ' new' multicultural societies, and the fusions and fissures of ' old' multicultural societies, have challenged and redrawn our understandings of nation and community, citizenship and belonging, exclusion and equality. This...

As part of a two-year research project focusing on Brick Lane's restaurant and retail sectors, the report highlights the unique contribution of the Bangladeshi community to Brick Lane and its world-renowned curry restaurants. Beyond Banglatown analyses Brick Lane's rapid gentrification over the last 15 years and the impact of its new economies on the UK curry capital, and the Bangladeshi community that has been excluded and displaced by this process of regeneration. The report highlights a steep decline in Brick Lane's curry restaurants, with a decrease of 62% in just 15 years - in the mid-2000s there were 60 outlets compared to just 23 in early-2020. While hipster cafés, vintage clothes shops, delicatessens and boutique chocolatiers have boomed on Brick Lane (also known as 'Banglatown' because of its status as the heartland of the Bangladeshi community in Britain), Bangladeshi-run curry restaurants have plummeted. Beyond Banglatown outlines broader challenges these restaurants have faced including, rising costs (rents, business rates); shortage of trained chefs because of visa constraints; lack of support from business and regeneration agencies; decline in the area's night-time economy; and the reluctance of the new generation of British Bangladeshis to work in the restaurant trade. A dramatic reduction in footfall due to the Covid-19 pandemic has severely exacerbated the situation and threatens the existence of many of Brick Lane's curry restaurants. The report authors call for a range of measures to help the restaurants to survive and evolve, such as government support to weather the Covid-19 crisis, investment and training for restaurateurs and formal recognition of the Bangladeshi community to the history of Brick Lane, and global London.