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The local space has a constituting impact on the construction of identities and the feeling of belongingness particularly of the descendants of migrants. In this paper I discuss the ways in which local spatial experiences are implicated in the process of identity formation of British Asian youth in Bradford. The youth, experience, demarcate, and utilise the local space for their self-definition. The discussion considers the contextuality of the positioning of those youth within the culturally, socially and territorially marked urban space. The youth define their belongingness according to their experiences of and within this local space. Their understanding of locality incorporates various though intertwined articulations of socially, culturally and emotionally marked spatial space. The boundaries of those localities are blurred or overlapping. They are constructed by the youth in context, as are their identifications with different notions of locality. This is at times expressed through territorialized local politics and actions.

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