Has multiculturalism failed in Britain?

Heath, Anthony; Demireva, Neli

doi:10.1080/01419870.2013.808754

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“…This is consistent with the findings on relative alienation found by Heath and Demireva (2014), and is a potential concerns if strong identity in at least in one of the domains is important for psychological well-being.…”

Section: Bangladeshi and Black African Muslims And Indian Sikhs And Lsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…However, these claims involve assumptions both about the incompatibility of ethnic and national identities, and about the coherence of national identity claims. Minorities have been the explicit targets of concerns about lack of national identification and the failure of multiculturalist policies to create a coherent sense of national belonging (Huntington 1993;Heath and Demireva 2014;Koopmans 2013;Verkuyten and Zaremba 2005), yet it is not clear that majorities themselves sign up to national identity in systematic or consistent ways.…”

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Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Nandi¹,

Platt²

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Original citation:Nandi, Alita and Platt, Lucinda (2015) Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38 (15 This document is the author's final accepted version of the journal article. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. 1 Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural societyAlita Nandi and Lucinda Platt * Abstract There has been increasing investigation of the national and ethnic identification of minority populations in Western societies and how far they raise questions about the success or failure of multicultural societies. Much of the political and academic discussion has, however, been premised on two assumptions. First that ethnic minority and national identification are mutually exclusive, and secondly that national identification represents an overarching majority identity, which represents consensus values. In this paper, using a large-scale nationally representative UK survey with a varied set of identity questions, and drawing on an extension of Berry's acculturation framework, we empirically test these two assumptions. We find that, among minorities, strong British national and minority identities often coincide and are not on an opposing axis. We also find that adherence to a British national identity shows cleavages within the White majority population. We further identify variation in these patterns by generation and political orientation.

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Section: Bangladeshi and Black African Muslims And Indian Sikhs And Lsupporting

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Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Nandi¹,

Platt²

2015

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…Successful integration would benefit not only migrants by reducing their marginalization, but also the economy at large, and is a key political objective . On the flip side, there is worry that a failure to integrate newly arrived minorities might create lasting discord or, at worst, entrenched conflict (Heath and Demireva 2014).…”

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Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

Engzell¹

2018

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Why is it that children of immigrants often outdo their ethnic majority peers in educational aspirations yet struggle to keep pace with their achievements? This article advances the explanation that many immigrant communities, while positively selected on education, still have moderate absolute levels of schooling. Therefore, parents' education may imbue children with high expectations but not always the means to fulfill them. Swedish data on children of immigrants from over 100 countries of origin support this view: net of parents' absolute years of schooling, a high rank in the sending country benefits children's aspirations, attitudes, and educational choices, but not their test scores or school grades. The upshot is an "aspiration squeeze" where, to emulate their parents' relative place in the education distribution, children are left struggling against the momentous tide of educational expansion.

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“…In fact, it is noteworthy that research that is largely sympathetic to the community cohesion approach, based on empirical studies of community cohesion policies related to young people, concludes similarly that this does not represent the death of multiculturalism but is rather coterminous (Thomas, 2011). This is, in addition to the discussion so far, not least because multiculturalism still lives on in policy, despite rhetoric to the contrary (Meer & Modood, 2009b;Modood, 2013;Heath and Demireva, 2013;Mathieu, 2017). Indeed, Meer and Modood (2014) have made this point in their own response to the 'zombie category'…”

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Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity: Of zombies, shadows and other ways of being

Sealy

2018

Ethnicities

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Multiculturalism has increasingly become challenged and outcast, whether directly or summarily, as theoretically useful or empirically valid. This has come prominently from three corners: interculturalism, ‘everyday’ multiculturalism or ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity, in all of which the zombieness of multiculturalism is seen to be mutually reassured. Nevertheless, there are significant short comings that have not been thoroughly addressed and considered. In this article, I offer a thoroughgoing engagement with and critique of these bodies of work, identifying their points of convergence and divergence, the underlying principles in their relation to multiculturalism and suggesting how they fall short, often of their own goals, in multiple and significant ways. I argue that the cosmopolitan individualism they wish to celebrate ignores the fact of power relations, inequality, conflict and the necessity of politics. The micro-level ‘solutions’ offered, I suggest, do not provide a substitute for a macro-level multiculturalism. Moreover, the conceptualisations of identity also do not stand up to scrutiny. This, I interrogate with a particular reference to religious identity to indicate the shortcomings in these literatures. I propose instead that not only is multiculturalism not the zombie it is claimed but also that it continues to offer better critical resources than its challengers.

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Has multiculturalism failed in Britain?

Cited by 86 publications

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Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Patterns of minority and majority identification in a multicultural society

Aspiration Squeeze: The Struggle of Children to Positively Selected Immigrants

Multiculturalism, interculturalism, ‘multiculture’ and super-diversity: Of zombies, shadows and other ways of being

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