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Living Multiculture: Understanding the New Spatial and Social Relations of Ethnicity and Multiculture in England

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  • Sarah Neal

    (Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, England)

  • Katy Bennett

    (Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, England)

  • Allan Cochrane

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England)

  • Giles Mohan

    (Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England)

Abstract

Since 2001, as the social and spatial compositions of multiculture and migration have become more complicated and diverse, geography has moved back to the centre of policy, political, and academic arguments about cultural difference and ethnic diversity in England. This spatial turn is most obvious in preoccupations with notions of increasing ethnic segregation, but it is also apparent in discussions of the possibility of everyday multicultural exchanges in relationally understood places. Responding to the work of others on these questions and in these places, and informed by data from research exploring Ghanaian and Somali migrant settlement in Milton Keynes, we review some of the quantitative and qualitative evidence being drawn on in academic, policy, and political debates about contemporary multiculture. We problematise the dominance of the concept of segregation in these debates and examine the value of the concept of conviviality for understanding the ways in which multiculture is lived.

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  • Sarah Neal & Katy Bennett & Allan Cochrane & Giles Mohan, 2013. "Living Multiculture: Understanding the New Spatial and Social Relations of Ethnicity and Multiculture in England," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 31(2), pages 308-323, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:31:y:2013:i:2:p:308-323
    DOI: 10.1068/c11263r
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