Cultural Barriers to the Successful Integration of Minorities in Britain

• In Event: 545 - Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Refereed Roundtable Session and Business Meeting
  In Refereed Roundtable 60min: Table 18. Ethnicity Retention

Abstract

This paper explores the barriers to the cultural integration of migrants and minorities in Britain and in particular examines the question of whether growing presence of co-ethnics in the neighbourhood area has a detrimental effect upon the integration process. The results are mixed. Social integration is adversely affected by the presence of co-ethnics but the size of this negative association is dwarfed compared to the pervasive effect of living in social housing and in areas with few resources. The paper highlights the cultural integration, nay assimilation, leap that has happened in the 1.5 and 2nd generation compared to the first across ethnic minority groups.

Author

• Neli Demireva, Nuffield College