I don’t mean to sound cynical, but…
The trouble with most official and academic thinking on integration.
At the heart of the Government’s Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper is...
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Ethnic disparity at university?
There’s a well-known political anecdote from the 90s when Jack Straw took control at the Home Office. He was looking at the statistics showing crime rising and rising and continuing to do so in the future. He wanted to know...
Read moreHow much discrimination on pay?
The ethnicity pay gap was highlighted in a report published last year by the Resolution Foundation, authored by Kathleen Henehan and Helena Rose. It was found that even after accounting for individual characteristics and...
Read moreCan we ‘Nudge’ our way to Integration?
Behavioural insights could offer low-cost ways to foster social mixing or reduce inequalities between different social groups. We know that policy nudges work. Insights from the fields of psychology, anthropology and...
Read moreIntegration in Britain: The Good and Not So Good
Postwar immigration-related diversity has fundamentally re-shaped the content of public policy discussions in the UK. Fiercely contested debates over multiculturalism, discrimination, integration, trust and identity are now...
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