{"id":19835,"date":"2020-06-29T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/29\/muhammad-anwar-obituary"},"modified":"2020-06-29T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:35:10","slug":"muhammad-anwar-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19835","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Anwar obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Race relations researcher who saw political involvement as a key factor in integration for immigrants to Britain<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Anwar, who has died aged 75 of a heart condition, did much to advance understanding of the problems and opportunities of ethnic minorities in Britain in the half century following his arrival in 1970 as a graduate student from Pakistan. In particular, he looked to involvement in democratic politics as a key factor in improving race relations.<\/p>\n<p>In 1976 he published a book, Between Two Cultures, on Pakistani migrants to the UK. At the time, he noted, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2007\/jan\/30\/highereducationprofile.highereducation\" title=\"\">racism and discrimination were rife<\/a>, and participation in the political process was very low\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/29\/muhammad-anwar-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race relations researcher who saw political involvement as a key factor in integration for immigrants to BritainMuhammad Anwar, who has died aged 75 of a heart condition, did much to advance understanding of the problems and opportunities of ethnic min&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,717,447,1357,60,4,543,362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-islam","category-islamophobia","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-politics-books","category-race"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19843,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19835\/revisions\/19843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}