Hmm.
Integration issues in the UK have been around since the post war migration Rush from former colonies and the lack of town and city planning implemented by both national and local governmental bodies.
In fact town planning took a back seater in the 50s since the Windrush landed on British soil as the rush to get new migrants into jobs left by the number of dead and vacated from the war took precedent. Unfortunately, since then, no government has really been sure what they intended for the new migrant communities who set up shop; assimilation? integration? Multicultural norms?
The first two in the list have never been perused in the UK. The latter was, disastrously, by Blair in 97. Discourse from central government has been sparse, leaving communities to effectively fend for themselves in cities which initially boomed with the new labour supply (Birmingham being a prime example, where I am also from), only to later fall into the shit when the boom fell away and industry went abroad. With white flight into the suburbs occuring in the 60s, and new migrant communities setting up in the inner city areas vacated (Nechelles, Lozells, Ladywood, parts of Edgbaston etc), the money left too, leaving what we're left with now of nearly 10 wards (last time I chekced) in Birmingham being amongst the poorest in the UK, and almost all being migrant muslim and black communities.
The problem is now we have entrenched segregation and de facto ghettoisation. We have a 4th generation who have grown up in a society that has known nothing but a 'community of communities', and the result is the physical lines you can draw between inner city constituenices between certain communities. This has always been the case with some demographics (Jews in North London for example), but it's arguably now even more pronounced, and shows no sign of abating.
Integration issues in the UK have been around since the post war migration Rush from former colonies and the lack of town and city planning implemented by both national and local governmental bodies.
In fact town planning took a back seater in the 50s since the Windrush landed on British soil as the rush to get new migrants into jobs left by the number of dead and vacated from the war took precedent. Unfortunately, since then, no government has really been sure what they intended for the new migrant communities who set up shop; assimilation? integration? Multicultural norms?
The first two in the list have never been perused in the UK. The latter was, disastrously, by Blair in 97. Discourse from central government has been sparse, leaving communities to effectively fend for themselves in cities which initially boomed with the new labour supply (Birmingham being a prime example, where I am also from), only to later fall into the shit when the boom fell away and industry went abroad. With white flight into the suburbs occuring in the 60s, and new migrant communities setting up in the inner city areas vacated (Nechelles, Lozells, Ladywood, parts of Edgbaston etc), the money left too, leaving what we're left with now of nearly 10 wards (last time I chekced) in Birmingham being amongst the poorest in the UK, and almost all being migrant muslim and black communities.
The problem is now we have entrenched segregation and de facto ghettoisation. We have a 4th generation who have grown up in a society that has known nothing but a 'community of communities', and the result is the physical lines you can draw between inner city constituenices between certain communities. This has always been the case with some demographics (Jews in North London for example), but it's arguably now even more pronounced, and shows no sign of abating.
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