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8 - The Racial Politics of Migrant Integration and Cohesion

from Part II - Moments in Time and Place: Rethinking Everyday Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

Les Back
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Michael Keith
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Kalbir Shukra
Affiliation:
Goldsmiths, University of London
John Solomos
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
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Summary

In this chapter, we consider the ways in which these normative framings structure both policy interventions but also ways of thinking about the multicultural nature of contemporary Britain. The work of the Blair Government’s Commission on Integration and Cohesion is considered where one of the authors served as a commissioner between 2006 and 2008. The notions of integration and cohesion are considered for the ways in which they, at times, fail to provide a particularly helpful frame for understanding the dynamics of social change, the diachronic rather than synchronic evolution of racialised politics in the United Kingdom, the highly localised restructuring of economy and society that structure the crucibles out of which new diversities emerge.

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The Unfinished Politics of Race
Histories of Political Participation, Migration, and Multiculturalism
, pp. 188 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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