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Ethnic ghettos in Britain: a fact or a myth?
Author(s) -
Simpson Ludi,
Finney Nissa
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00353.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , mythology , population , sociology , genealogy , history , development economics , ethnology , criminology , demography , anthropology , economics , classics
A common claim is that Britain's minorities live isolated “parallel lives” in inner cities that have become ethnic ghettos. Does the evidence confirm such dangerous lack of integration? Ludi Simpson and Nissa Finney find a basic misunderstanding about population change—a misunderstanding that makes changing the ethnic mix of neighbourhoods an unrealistic policy goal.