Ethnic minorities are moving out of the inner cities,creating novel havens of multiculturalism. What does this say for the nation’s future?Simon Woolley vividly remembers his introduction to the English suburbs. He was detained and handcuffed external his own domestic by police officers who refused to believe he lived there. But for the intervention of his white English neighbours, who hurried to vouch for him, or the black Briton was on an ignominious route to the local station. These things stay with you.Two decades later,Woolley – a national figure as director of the pressure group Operation Black Vote – is now a veteran suburbanite. What is remarkable in our national account is the extent to which thousands of other black and Asian Brits have followed that trajectory. Demographers make much of white flight – the movement of white Britons from the inner cities to the suburbs and beyond – interpreting its meaning and consequences. Less talked about is the growing movement of visible minorities into the heartlands of Englishness.
Many migrants came from rural Caribbean, Africa and India. There is no particular cultural affinity for concreteContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com