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In the wake of Brexit: negotiating diversity and majority-minority relations in the North of England.
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Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies . Apr2023, Vol. 49 Issue 8, p2070-2089. 20p. 1 Chart. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Our contribution to this special issue brings the theoretical and empirical orientations of the Becoming a Minority (BaM) project into dialogue with the complex and charged post-Brexit geography of the North of England. We present findings from the UK ESRC funded project Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in 'Ordinary' Towns and Cities after Brexit, drawing upon a period of co-productive and ethnographic work with local authority stakeholders, voluntary sector practitioners and community actors in two urban locations in the English North: Halifax and Wakefield. We report on how shifting patterns of diversity and population change interlock with deindustrialised economies, fiscal austerity, the coronavirus crisis, and the predations of ethno-nationalist politics and policy. Amid these dislocations and risks, we find delicate, differentiated, and predominantly informal infrastructures of community governance and intervention attempting to build alliances and resolve tensions: a grounded, local-view that belies the kind of image of the North established in mainstream national understandings of the dramatic politics of Brexit and after. Taking a productive cue from the BaM study, we offer some fine-grained reflections on localised dynamics of diversity experience and the negotiation of inter-ethnic relations albeit in a sprawling urban region beyond the West-European metropolitan core. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MULTICULTURALISM
*POSTINDUSTRIAL societies
*COMMUNITY studies
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1369183X
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163248614
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2182555