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Ethnic diversification and neighbourhood mixing : a rapid response analysis of the 2021 Census of England and Wales

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Date
16/01/2023
Author
Catney, Gemma
Lloyd, Christopher D.
Ellis, Mark
Wright, Richard
Finney, Nissa
Jivraj, Stephen
Manley, David
Keywords
Census
Diversity
Ethnicity
Mixing
Neighbourhood
Segregation
3rd-DAS
MCP
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Abstract
This paper provides a rapid response analysis of the changing geographies of ethnic diversity and segregation in England and Wales using Census data covering the last 30 years (1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021), a period of significant social, economic and political change. Presenting the first detailed analysis of 2021 Census small area ethnic group data, we find that the growth of ethnic diversity at the national level is mirrored across residential neighbourhoods. Increasing numbers of neighbourhoods are home to a substantial mix of people from different ethnic groups, and this growing neighbourhood ethnic diversity has been spatially diffusing across all regions of England and Wales. We argue that to understand the ethnic mosaic across England and Wales, it is more illuminating to consider mix than majority: places labelled as 'minority-majority' are, in fact, ethnically diverse spaces, home to sizable proportions of people from many ethnic groups. Increasing ethnic diversity is matched by decreasing residential segregation, for all ethnic groups-majority and minority.
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Catney , G , Lloyd , C D , Ellis , M , Wright , R , Finney , N , Jivraj , S & Manley , D 2023 , ' Ethnic diversification and neighbourhood mixing : a rapid response analysis of the 2021 Census of England and Wales ' , The Geographical Journal , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12507
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The Geographical Journal
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12507
ISSN
0016-7398
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Authors. The Geographical Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is acknowledged gratefully, for the project ‘Geographies of Ethnic Diversity and Inequalities (GEDI)’ (award ES/W012499/1).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26760

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