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Four Shifting geographies of minority ethnic settlement: remaking communities in Oldham and Rochdale
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Abstract
This chapter reveals the nuanced and complicated factors that shape the residential decisions and aspirations of various ethnic groups. It explores how the understandings of community have an impact on the perceptions of neighbourhood. The chapter is able to determine a commonality in housing aspirations between ethnic groups and a considerable desire for multi-ethnic neighbourhoods that conflicts with the ‘self-segregation’ and ‘parallel lives’ paradigms which underlie the community-cohesion agenda.
Abstract
This chapter reveals the nuanced and complicated factors that shape the residential decisions and aspirations of various ethnic groups. It explores how the understandings of community have an impact on the perceptions of neighbourhood. The chapter is able to determine a commonality in housing aspirations between ethnic groups and a considerable desire for multi-ethnic neighbourhoods that conflicts with the ‘self-segregation’ and ‘parallel lives’ paradigms which underlie the community-cohesion agenda.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Acknowledgements v
- Notes on contributors vi
- Introduction 1
- Community cohesion and the politics of communitarianism 15
- Community cohesion in Bradford: neoliberal integrationism 35
- Connectivity of place and housing market change: the case of Birmingham 57
- Shifting geographies of minority ethnic settlement: remaking communities in Oldham and Rochdale 81
- Employment and disconnection: cultures of worklessness in neighbourhoods 99
- Beyond ‘social glue’? ‘Faith’ and community cohesion 119
- The third sector and community cohesion in deprived neighbourhoods 139
- Welfare state institutions and secessionary neighbourhood spaces 159
- New immigration and neighbourhood change 177
- Too much cohesion? Young people’s territoriality in Glasgow and Edinburgh 199
- Geodemographics and the construction of differentiated neighbourhoods 219
- Secession or cohesion? Exploring the impact of gated communities 239
- Conclusions 259
- Index 267
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures iv
- Acknowledgements v
- Notes on contributors vi
- Introduction 1
- Community cohesion and the politics of communitarianism 15
- Community cohesion in Bradford: neoliberal integrationism 35
- Connectivity of place and housing market change: the case of Birmingham 57
- Shifting geographies of minority ethnic settlement: remaking communities in Oldham and Rochdale 81
- Employment and disconnection: cultures of worklessness in neighbourhoods 99
- Beyond ‘social glue’? ‘Faith’ and community cohesion 119
- The third sector and community cohesion in deprived neighbourhoods 139
- Welfare state institutions and secessionary neighbourhood spaces 159
- New immigration and neighbourhood change 177
- Too much cohesion? Young people’s territoriality in Glasgow and Edinburgh 199
- Geodemographics and the construction of differentiated neighbourhoods 219
- Secession or cohesion? Exploring the impact of gated communities 239
- Conclusions 259
- Index 267
