The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: Reporting on a Report

Parekh, Bhikhu

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“…There was a rich body of literature around ethnic identity, diversity, hybridity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, etc., including critical perspectives problematising these concepts and how they play out in society, but always and only embedded in the urban sphere (eg. Alexander, 2000;Amin, 2002; Back and Solomos, 2003;Brah,et al 1999;Hesse, 2000;Mirza, 1997;Parekh, 2000a;2000b). At the same time, especially within geography, there was interest in the ways in which rurality/rural space is implicated within national identity construction, notions of belonging and spatial practices 3 .…”

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Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

Askins

2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper draws on research with people from African, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds regarding perceptions and use of the English countryside. I explore the complex ways in which the category 'rural' was constructed as both essentialised and relational: how the countryside was understood most definitely as 'not-city' but also, at the same time, the English countryside was conceived as part of a range of networks: one site in a web of 'nature places' across the country, as well as one rural in an international chain of rurals -specifically via embodied and emotional connections with 'nature'. I argue that alongside sensed/sensual embodiment (the non-representational intuitive work of the body), we need also to consider reflective embodiment as a desire to space/place in order to address the structural socio-spatial exclusions endemic in (rural) England and how they are challenged. I suggest that a more progressive conceptualisation of rurality -a 'transrural' open to issues of mobility and desire -can help us disrupt dominant notions of rural England as only an exclusionary white space, and reposition it as a site within multicultural, multiethnic, transnational and mobile social I explored issues regarding ethnicity, rurality and national belonging in contemporary England, and was tasked with writing a policy report alongside the thesis 2 . As I read the academic work around my research, I increasingly became aware of a dichotomy. There was a rich body of literature around ethnic identity, diversity, hybridity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, etc., including critical perspectives problematising these concepts and how they play out in society, but always and only embedded in the urban sphere (eg. Alexander, 2000;Amin, 2002; Back and Solomos, 2003;Brah,et al. 1999;Hesse, 2000;Mirza, 1997;Parekh, 2000a;2000b). At the same time, especially within geography, there was interest in the ways in which rurality/rural space is implicated within national identity construction, notions of belonging and spatial practices 3 . In the English context, the national imagery of rural space appeared to exclude ethnic minorities, among other groups, from accessing the countryside, both physically and emotionally (Cloke & Little, 1997;Milbourne, 1997). The connection between the rural as the 'genuine' England and not multicultural was highlighted in the Henderson and Kaur, 1999;Kinsman, 1995;Malik, 1992). However, there had been a lack of empirical work at that time to examine these issues further: ethnic minorities were perhaps too easily theorised and written as excluded 'rural others'. Indeed, Little (1999:438) voiced concern regarding the use of the term 'rural others' in general, "the lack of theoretical discussion around 'the other' and 'the same'", the paucity of recognition of the power relations complicit in such a categorisation, and the "static treatment of both individual and group identity".

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Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

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2009

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…This latter role is, I think, one which is often minimized in academic accounts of Hall's work (Rojek 2003, Davis 2004, Procter 2004, but is central to understanding both his intellectual choices and his wider importance (Farred 2003, Scott 2005; it points to Hall's insistence on the inseparability of intellectual and political life (Rustin 2007), on the paramount necessity of communication of ideas to as wide an audience as possible, and the provocation to thinking and acting differently Á what Henry Giroux has termed 'critical public pedagogy ' (2000). As Hall himself commented in a 2006 interview with Laurie Taylor:…”

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“…Hall has located himself primarily within this specific chosen national and historical context Á within what he terms 'our island story' (Jaggi 2000, emphasis added), or, more wryly, as 'in the belly of the beast' (cited in Davis 2004, p. 191). His work reflects the concentrated focus on 'the problem which is here, not over there' (Hall, in Davis 2004, p. 195), whether that problem is the rise of Thatcherism, the failures of New Labour (Taylor 2006) or the 'Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain' (Parekh 2000), concerns underpinned by a commitment to the changing politics of the British Left. His positioning as one of the founding fathers of British Cultural Studies has undoubtedly cemented this reputation Á it is indicative of this positioning that each of the three British books on Hall's work published in recent years start from, and end with, this definition of Hall's significance (Rojek 2003, Davis 2004, Procter 2004, while Grant Farred has described Stuart Hall as 'the incarnation of cultural studies .…”

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Stuart Hall and ‘Race’

Alexander¹

2009

Cultural Studies

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“…The publication of The Parekh Report was the culmination of the work of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain and aimed to provide policy recommendations on how to counteract racial discrimination in Britain. 19 Overall, 'new multiculturalism' was a reconceptualisation that tried to adopt a 'bottom-up' approach by which 'culture' was considered to be generated from society at large and not rigidly defined by the state from above. 20 In spite of these 'reformist' efforts, the multicultural approach has been …”

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Negotiating Ethnic Recognition Systems in the UK: the soft pan-ethnic identifications of Latin American migrants in the north of England

Giralt

2013

Third World Quarterly

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Despite aiming to provide minority ethnic groups with material equality and protection from discrimination, the British ethno-cultural system of recognition has perpetuated social differentiation which is difficult to transcend. Drawing from interviews with informants and ten in-depth case studies with Latin American and Latino-British families in the Yorkshire and Greater Manchester regions of the north of England, the paper explores the fraught relationship between these migrants and their multicultural framework of incorporation.Significant here are the contested understandings of the Latin American collective identity combined with the diversity of migration trajectories, socio-economic backgrounds, and life course needs of migrants and their children which contribute to soft panethnic identifications among the participant population. It is argued that by encouraging migrants and their descendants to seek recognition through absolute ethnic differences, multicultural recognition systems can reproduce colonial categories and fail to respond to the diverse social and life course needs of migrants.

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The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: Reporting on a Report

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Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

Crossing divides: Ethnicity and rurality

Stuart Hall and ‘Race’

Negotiating Ethnic Recognition Systems in the UK: the soft pan-ethnic identifications of Latin American migrants in the north of England

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