By Nissa Finney
Is Britain below danger from ethnic variety? Is the social cloth crumbling as humans 'sleepwalk to segregation'? within the context of renewed debates approximately variety and solidarity, this ebook interrogates modern claims approximately race and migration in Britain. It demonstrates that some of the claims are actually myths. It offers proof in aid of — and competition to — those myths in an available but academically rigorous demeanour. The ebook argues that the myths of race and migration are the genuine risk to an built-in society. It proposes that variety and mobility are anticipated and benign, and recommends that attention may still go back to difficulties of inequality and prejudice. 'Sleepwalking to Segregation'? combines an easy-to-read assessment of the topic with leading edge new examine. It tackles head-on questions about degrees of immigration, the contribution of immigrants, minority self-segregation, ghettoisation, and the longer term variety of the inhabitants. It poses an instantaneous problem to the arguments of commentators resembling MigrationWatchUK and the fee for Equality and Human Rights.
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The question has developed through the three censuses but has not fundamentally changed. 37 This is by far the longest of the 35 questions in the 2001 Census for each individual. ’ and requests that respondents select the category that best indicates their ‘cultural background’. The available categories are hierarchically structured, with a first level marked by five bold headings that equate to colour or race: ‘White’, ‘Mixed’, ‘Asian or Asian British’, ‘Black or Black British’, and ‘Chinese or other ethnic group’.
Among those born in the UK and recorded as Pakistani or Bangladeshi in 1991, more than 5% were recorded as something different in 2001. 46 The census leads official statistical categorisation by providing baseline population figures for other studies. One can sympathise with the impossibility of its satisfying the conceptual approach of such a variety of motivations that demand the statistics. But in other studies there is an opportunity to plan the instruments of data collection to suit particular purposes.
To add to the conceptual difficulties, planning must involve prediction (as plans are about the future), and therefore some constancy of categories over time. But this is not possible with measurement of ethnic affiliation. We each have many cultural affiliations, which we express differently in different contexts. We change our affiliation over time too, in response to the changing environment in which our declarations of difference take place, and in response to our own development and understanding.