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By Mary J. Hickman, Nicola Mai, Helen Crowley (auth.)

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ISBN-13: 9781137015174

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It is in that spirit that we engaged in this research although we also sought to establish ‘what works’. Our findings therefore do provide pointers that are clearly of relevance for policymakers but few of them conform to the short-term requirements of most policy formulation, driven as it is, by the electoral cycle. Our fieldwork took place between 2005 and 2007, in the final two years of one of the longest periods of economic growth in recent British history. So while the research was undertaken at one moment in time and writing in 2010–11 the global and national contexts and circumstances have changed, we are also confident that we have produced an analysis that is relevant to these transformed times.

Its remit was to ‘analyse the current state of multi-ethnic Britain and to propose ways of countering racial discrimination and disadvantage and making Britain a confident and vibrant multicultural society at ease with its rich diversity’ (Parekh, 2000: viii). The Parekh Report argued that differences matter profoundly. But that differences are not necessarily polarising as many people live ‘in between’ or with more than one identity. The commission’s aim was to generate a critical social imaginary that could move British society from laissez faire ‘multicultural drift’ to a ‘purposeful process of change’ (p.

It is no accident that the very decades marked by neoliberal policies have been those in which virulent backlash movements against women, immigrants, and racial and sexual minorities have arisen. This is neoliberal change as not only destabilising but also as polarising, and migration is frequently cited as at the heart of unwelcome changes. Elements of Layton’s type of analysis have also been applied in the UK. Rutherford (2007) has written of the way in which asylum seekers are reminders by their very presence of change and disruption.

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