This book focuses on the changing terrain of ethnic disadvantage in Britain, drawing on up-to-date sources. It goes further than texts that merely describe ethnic inequalities to explore and explain their dynamic nature. It suggests that the increasing diversity of experience among different ethnic groups is a key to understanding continuing and emerging tensions and conflicts.
Explaining ethnic differences:
provides up to date data and analysis of ethnic diversity and changing patterns of disadvantage in Britain;
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covers key areas of social life, including demographic trends, education, employment, housing, health, gender, and policing and community disorder;
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is written by leading experts in the field;
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addresses issues of urgent public importance in the context of recent community disorder and the resurgence of the far right.
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The book is essential reading for policy makers in central and local government; academics, postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates in the social sciences; social work, health, education and housing professionals; and criminal justice personnel.
Price: $44.95
Pages: 192
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date:
23 July 2003
ISBN: 9781861344670
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / School Safety, Educational strategies and policy, MEDICAL / Health Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Housing and homelessness, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social work
"... this volume provides new insights into the factors that shape the lives of nearly seven percent (p.3) of the UK population. As such it will not only provide an interesting and informative reference for researchers who contribute to the literature in this field, but also to policy makers who are working towards reducing inequalities and disadvantages for all ethnic groups." Work, Employment and Society
David Mason is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Sociology, Politics and Law at the University of Plymouth.
Introduction ~ David Mason; Changing ethnic disadvantage: an overview ~ David Mason; The demographic characteristics of people from minority ethnic groups in Britain ~ David Owen; Ethnic differentials in educational performance ~ Tariq Modood; Changing patterns of ethnic disadvantage in employment ~ David Mason; Patterns of and explanations for ethnic inequalities in health ~ James Y. Nazroo; Housing black and minority ethnic communities: diversity and constraint ~ Malcolm Harrison; 'All the women are white, all the blacks are men - but some of us are brave': mapping the consequences of invisibility for black and minority ethnic women in Britain ~ Heidi Safia Mirza; Police lore and community disorder: diversity in the criminal justice system ~ Virinder S. Kalra.
