Sikhs of France and the United Kingdom

Andrew Milne is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne, France. He worked for nearly thirty years at Sciences Po Toulouse, and he completed a two-year post-doctoral research project on the migration of English-speakers to the city of Pau, in the Southwest of France, using oral history methodology at the University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour. He successfully completed his Ph.D. in 2021 at the University of Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès, with the Doctoral School of Arts, Literature, Languages, Philosophy, and Communication. His research was supervised by the Contemporary British Studies Professor Vincent Latour, and his doctoral thesis was entitled “Exploring Aspects on both Sides of the Channel: A Comparative Case Study of the Sikhs in the United Kingdom and France”. He has written and edited a number of books related to the question of national identity, as well as on British and Commonwealth histories. His main research interests are related to immigration, in particular of the Sikh diaspora to both France and the United Kingdom, collective memory, nationalisms, and national identities. He is a member of the CLIMAS [Cultures and Literatures of the English-Speaking World] research centre at the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne. He also belongs to the CRECIB, the Centre for Research in British Civilisation, and the SAES, the Society of Anglicists of Higher Education.

• 1. Introduction 2. France and India 3. British Sikhs 4. Sikhs: the Quest for Recognition