Parallel lives and ghettos in Britain: facts or myths?

Ludi Simpson Ludi Simpson is Professor of Population Studies and Nissa Finney is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Ludi works with population statistics, aiming to extend their use by communities and governments. Nissa's research focuses on migration and local ethnic population change within Britain. Ludi and Nissa extend the arguments in this article in their book Sleepwalking to Segregation? Challenging myths about race and migration (2009, Policy Press). (email: [email protected]; [email protected])

Nissa Finney Ludi Simpson is Professor of Population Studies and Nissa Finney is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Ludi works with population statistics, aiming to extend their use by communities and governments. Nissa's research focuses on migration and local ethnic population change within Britain. Ludi and Nissa extend the arguments in this article in their book Sleepwalking to Segregation? Challenging myths about race and migration (2009, Policy Press). (email: [email protected]; [email protected])

ABSTRACT

A claim commonly made today is that Britain's minorities live isolated ‘parallel lives’ in inner cities which have become ethnic ghettos. Does the evidence confirm such dangerous lack of integration? This article argues that a basic misunderstanding about population change underlies these claims. Changing ethnic composition in Britain is more about different rates of natural change than different directions of migration. This misunderstanding makes changing the ethnic mix of neighbourhoods an unrealistic policy goal.

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