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Kylie, Molly, Dawn, Samantha and Josie were aged between 16 and 18. They had all been born in the borough, were white and had parents, grandparents and great-grandparents with migratory histories that connected Greece to Ireland, and Bethnal Green to the migrations of the Romany population. Kylie and Molly were friends, as were Dawn, Samantha and Josie. They were all working-class. Dawn and Samantha had achieved some grade Cs at GCSE and the others had fared less The Multicultural Past 37 well.
These practices and their relation to Newham’s hierarchies of belonging became apparent as Serena sought greater independence from her mother. Eva’s assertions of independence had started to make her mother worry that they were becoming estranged, and in an attempt to create empathy, she assured her daughter that she remembered what it was like to be 14. Eva set her straight, telling her it was ‘ancient The Multicultural Past 43 history’. What she meant by this was that her mother’s memories of the past, based on what Eva considered to be the conservative upbringing in northern Albania, were distinct to the ideas of femininity, independence and middle-class mobility she held to be part of her forward trajectory.
Someone comes over from Lithuania, Poland . . Kylie: . . they get a flat straight away. 38 Urban Multiculture Molly: . . anywhere. They come over with their black bags and they’re in a flat within two weeks. Why has it taken me so long? Because all of the people who come over from their countries get the flat and stops me from getting the flat. And I think they should prioritise. The people that lives in this country, the people that are born in this country should be prioritised before the people that come over.