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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown moved to the UK in 1972 from Uganda. She completed her M.Phil. in literature at Oxford in 1975, and then began teaching adults, particularly immigrants and refugees. Since 1985 she has been a journalist, writing for the Guardian, New Statesman and other newspapers, and is now a regular columnist on the Independent. She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books. Her book, No Place Like Home, well received by critics, was an autobiographical account of a twice-removed immigrant. Since 1996 she has been a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research which published her book, True Colours concerning the role of government on racial attitudes, and launched by Tony Blair in March 1999. She also wrote a book on the needs of black and Asian elders in 1998, and has recently published Who Do We Think We Are?, an acclaimed book on the state of the nation, and After Multiculturalism which looks at the globalised future. Alibhai-Brown is a member of the Home Office Race Forum and advises various key institutions on race matters. In June 1999, she received an honorary degree from the Open University for her contributions to social justice, and in the same month she joined a new think tank, The Foreign Policy Centre, as a senior research fellow. Her articles on forced marriages and the maltreatment of young Asian girls by their families has led to the British government taking up the issue. She is currently working with ministers on this and other matters affecting the Asian community.
She has been appointed as an adviser on the implementation of citizenship education by the Department of Education and Employment. She is a Vice President of the United Nations Association, UK, and has also agreed to be a special ambassador for the Samaritans. In 1999 she won the BBC TV ASIA award for writing. | |||||||||||||||
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