Sean Carey

Sean Carey PhD studied sociology and social anthropology as both an undergraduate and a postgraduate at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has lectured at the University of Northumbria and was a research associate at Royal Holloway College investigating “street life and ethnicity” – how members of different ethnic groups used (or did not use) a variety of public spaces - in a number of east and north London boroughs.

Sean has written extensively on several Hindu religious movements in the UK as well as the Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani communities in the East End of London. His recent publications include ‘Curry Capital: The Restaurant Sector in London’s Brick Lane’, The Institute of Community Studies, 2004 and (with Nooruddin Ahmed) ‘Bridging the Gap: The London Olympics 2012 and South Asian-Owned Businesses in Brick Lane and Green Street’, The Young Foundation, 2006.He has also written numerous articles for New Society and on political and social developments in Mauritius for New African, New Internationalist and New Statesman magazines as well as Mauritius Times and L’Express newspapers. Sean is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM), Roehampton University.