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Welcome to citizenship?

Bridget Byrne By Bridget Byrne Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: August 13, 2015

Drawing on research for her book Making Citizens, Bridget Byrne explores how citizenship ceremonies often hear claims that the UK is a welcoming place, in contrast to new citizens’ actual experiences. Citizenship ceremonies have been taking place in the UK for over a decade. They are very common – taking place, often weekly, in cities […]

Tagged With: citizenship, citizenship ceremonies, Cumbria, Manchester, migrants, multiculturalism, New Labour

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Benefits and costs of party diversity

Maria Sobolewska By Maria Sobolewska Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: July 22, 2015

Why do Conservatives try so hard to increase their ethnic diversity while Labour takes minorities for granted? It all depends on who their target voter is. Labour’s target voters thought less of the party when they knew about its ethnic diversity, Conservative’s target voters were the opposite, explains Maria Sobolewska. For political parties the question […]

Tagged With: conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP

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British Muslims do feel British, Prime Minister

By Saffron Karlsen Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: July 20, 2015

While David Cameron has urged British Muslims to assert their British identity, the evidence is that they already do, explains Saffron Karlsen. There is a widely held perception in society that Muslim people living in Britain do not feel British. Comments by David Cameron and others, for example, describe a need to address the lack […]

Tagged With: British, British Muslims, Caribbean Christians, David Cameron, Hindus, Home Office Citizenship Survey, Islam, muslims, radicalisation, Sikhs

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Policing marches and parades in Scotland: taking racism seriously?

Stephen Ashe By Stephen Ashe Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: July 9, 2015

From Easter to autumn, there are loyalist order and Irish Republican parades across Scotland. Stephen Ashe explores the policing of these processions, focusing on racism and sectarianism. In 2013, I was part of a research team commissioned by the Scottish Government to carry out research into the impact of public processions. In 2012, 34% of […]

Tagged With: Apprentice Boys of Derry, Brendan McGeever, Cairde na hÉirea, Ireland, Irish Republican, Islamaphobia, Miri Song, National Front, Orange Order, Police, Pride Scotia, Royal Black Institute, Satnam Virdee, Scotland, Scottish Defence League

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Inequality in the criminal justice system

By Stephanie Wallace Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity Posted: June 25, 2015

Ethnic minorities are heavily over-represented at all stages of the criminal justice system. We have to look at the wider structure of inequality to understand why, argues Stephanie Wallace. Two dominant explanations generally account for the over representation of ethnic minority groups in the criminal justice system; ethnic minorities commit more crime and institutionalised racism. […]

Tagged With: criminal justice, Crown Court, ethnic minorities, Offenders, prison, racism, Sunday Times, Trevor Philllips

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Lessons from the Caribbean on integrated healthcare

Dawn Edge By Dawn Edge Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 23, 2015

The NHS has much that it could learn from integrated mental health and primary care in the Caribbean, explains Dr Dawn Edge. The government has signalled that health and social care providers must move from ‘engagement’ to full ‘integration’. While the details are being worked out, there is some (albeit muted) disquiet that mental healthcare […]

Tagged With: Barbados, Caribbean, department of health, Five Year Forward View, integrated healthcare, Jamaica, Kingston, long term conditions, mental health, morbidity, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, National Institute for Health Research, NHS, NICE, Professor Wendel Abel, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

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Employment targets for ethnic minorities will not reduce racial inequalities

By Omar Khan Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity, Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: June 19, 2015

Omar Khan, Director of the Runnymede Trust, assesses the prospects for ethnic minorities under the new Conservative Government. The Prime Minister David Cameron’s commitments during the 2015 campaign will continue rather than reduce racial inequalities in the labour market. His underwhelming targets suggest we need better evidence, proper legislative scrutiny and public debate to make democracy […]

Tagged With: BME, Conservative, David Cameron, Enoch Powell, equality, unemployment

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Ethnic diversity and UK PLC

Ken Clark By Ken Clark Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 11, 2015

The top UK firms need more leadership from government to close the ethnic diversity gap, argues Ken Clark. Ethnic disadvantage in the labour market has been well documented in recent years. In the UK, as in many other countries, some non-white groups face restricted access to employment and suffer lower wages when in jobs. These […]

Tagged With: BBC, Davies Review, employment, ethnic diversity, glass ceiling, High Fliers, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, KPMG, McKinsey, OECD, PwC, race

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The role of ethnicity in university admissions

Steven Jones By Steven Jones Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 10, 2015

Your likelihood of being offered a place at a Russell Group university may be related to your ethnicity, explains Steven Jones. Here is an excerpt from a UCAS personal statement written recently by an applicant to a Russell Group university: “There are various times where I have been a team member such as in hockey, […]

Tagged With: admission policies, Barbara Ellen, discrimination, Guardian, MIE, Oxford University, race, Russell Group, Sutton Trust, The Observer, ucas, Universities, Vikki Boliver

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What ‘race’ is an elf?

Andrew Smith By Andrew Smith Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: May 28, 2015

Should we see fantasy novels as just that – fantasies? Andrew Smith suggests they can contain insidious racism. Last month saw the DVD release of the final film in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit franchise, the hugely successful follow-up to the same director’s film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. If you want to know what […]

Tagged With: Chinua Achebe, elfs, First World War, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary, Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, Tolkein

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