1st May 1999 - 30th April 2001
ESRC Award R000238038
This research examines the scale, patterns, processes and consequences of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi movement beyond their 'core' community clusters in Manchester, Bolton and Leeds.
The aim is to provide a contextualised understanding of the changing geography and life-chances of South Asians in Britain, and to re-examine the role of 'race', ethnicity and class in debates about socio-economic inclusion and exclusion.
The research will explore the social, economic and cultural processes motivating, enabling and constraining movement from ethnic 'core' areas, the role of public, private and voluntary sector institutions play in promoting, reinforcing or hindering the relocation process, and the impact of residential mobility (or lack of mobility) on South Asian quality of life, socio-economic success and wider opportunities.
The research will employ quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including South Asian name analysis of diaries completed by South Asian and white households trying to buy into suburban areas. The research links in to debates about the effects of neighbourhood on household opportunities, and the desirability of promoting relocation policies for minority ethnic groups, and has policy relevance for 'best practice' in the public, private and voluntary housing sector.