Hopes and Fears: Community Cohesion and the ‘White Working Class’ in One of the ‘Failed Spaces’ of Multiculturalism

Thomas, Paul; Busher, Joel; Macklin, Graham; Rogerson, Michelle; Christmann, Kris

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“…Indeed, existing research suggests that there is no simple relationship between white majorities' sense of the salience of their ethnicity (and antiimmigrant sentiment) and their political mobilisation (e.g. Thomas et al 2018;Duffy and Frere-Smith 2014). Rather, political commitment and ethnic orientation vary in complex ways (Kenny 2014).…”

Section: Majority Ethnic and Political Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The relationship between political and ethnic identity among UK ethnic minority and majority populations

Nandi

Platt

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The rise across Europe of political parties espousing an ethnic conception of the nation, explicitly opposed to immigrants and minorities, has brought into stark relief the politics of identity. Exploiting multiple identity questions in a large, nationally representative UK survey, this paper investigates the drivers of ethnic and political identity and the extent to which they are similar. It does so for both the ethnic majority and ethnic minorities. Locating our analysis within social identity theory, we consider the role of observed characteristics, including party affiliation, the experience of harassment, and political context in shaping ethnic and political identities. We also show that there are unobserved factors jointly implicated in individuals' political and ethnic identities, which we interpret as providing suggestive evidence of more general political mobilisation of ethnicity. Although individual characteristics have largely expected associations with identity, we find that the local share of UKIP/BNP voters heightens ethnic but not political identity among both majority and minority populations. By contrast, harassment and discrimination shapes minorities' political but not ethnic identity. Contrary to expectations, both political and ethnic identities are stronger among secondgeneration compared to immigrant minorities.

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Section: Majority Ethnic and Political Identitiesmentioning

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The relationship between political and ethnic identity among UK ethnic minority and majority populations

Nandi

Platt

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Community cohesion or social cohesion?' (practitioner 1.1, youth empowerment) This was in line with the multiple terminologies used in literature which ranged from neighbourhood, community, and society when discussing cohesion (Thomas et al, 2018).…”

Section: Social Cohesion -Developing a Conceptualisationmentioning

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The wicked problem of social cohesion: moving ahead

Yassim

2019

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Purpose Despite the amount of attention given to social cohesion, divisions within many societies are becoming wider due to various factors including religious and far-right extremism and economic austerity. Given its “wickedness”, social cohesion has been researched from various dimensions. However, to develop an effective solution-based programme, these multi-facets need to be brought together for a clearer way forward. This paper aims to bring together multiple disciplines to propose a way forward in the social cohesion discourse in the following two ways: by developing a common conceptualisation of social cohesion and identifying an effective approach to operationalise social cohesion. Design/methodology/approach This research adopted a critical qualitative research approach and used three expert discussion forums consisting of academics and practitioners from multiple disciplines. Findings The research identifies contact theory and participatory approaches as providing an effective way forward for social cohesion. Social cohesion is conceptualised in the form of factors needed to build a cohesive society and outcomes of a cohesive society. Using the social marketing approach of down- mid- and up-stream strategies and interventions, this research proposes a bottom-up approach to addressing the wicked problem of social cohesion. Originality/value Social cohesion has been discussed by various academics and practitioners from multiple disciplines. This paper developed a common conceptualisation of social cohesion based on a review of multi-disciplinary literature combined with discussions with experts from academia and practice. Relating this to the down-, up- and mid-stream social marketing, and this paper also identified the participatory approach, based on contact theory, as an effective way in which social marketers can achieve downstream social marketing objectives.

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“…From a different angle, critics of multiculturalism, particularly the anti-essentialists, argue that multi-'culture' (ism) is fundamentally problematic on the grounds that the idea of multiculturalism is innately essentialist. Multiculturalism is also criticised for creating preferential treatment myths among resource-constrained citizens in the community (Author, 2015) or, in other words, it is alleged that multiculturalism distorts the equitable distribution of wealth (Barry, 2001;Thomas et al 2017;Goodhart, 2013).…”

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“…It has been more than a decade since multiculturalism in the UK was replaced by the Community Cohesion Agenda (CCA), which is often referred to as the post-multiculturalism approach to integrationism. Many argue that the 2001 terrorist attack in New York and the urban disturbances (also known as race riots) that took place in the Northern cities of the UK in 2001 primarily account for by this shift in integration approach (Ritchie, 2001;Thomas et. al., 2017;McGhee, 2005McGhee, , 2008Alam and Husband, 2013).…”

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“…Likewise there are wider concerns that the recent discourse of integration is allegedly based on racialised minorities that focuses more on religion than the previous discourses of colour, race and ethnicity (Abbas, 2004) and particularly, for certain reasons (e.g. Islamophobia, global terrorism), Islam has become the focus of this discourse (Thomas et. al.…”

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Transformation of Socio-Cultural Integration Policy and Inherent Political Theories in the UK: A Way Forward

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2019

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Hopes and Fears: Community Cohesion and the ‘White Working Class’ in One of the ‘Failed Spaces’ of Multiculturalism

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Cited by 21 publications

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The relationship between political and ethnic identity among UK ethnic minority and majority populations

The relationship between political and ethnic identity among UK ethnic minority and majority populations

The wicked problem of social cohesion: moving ahead

Transformation of Socio-Cultural Integration Policy and Inherent Political Theories in the UK: A Way Forward

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