Kesten, Jamie; Cochrane, Allan; Mohan, Giles and Neal, Sarah
(2011).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1080/07256868.2011.547173 |
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Abstract
Convention suggests that multicultural areas tend to exhibit high levels of residential and educational segregation, high degrees of poverty and deprivation and low rates of contact between culturally distinct individuals and groups. By contrast, with the help of a case study of a fast growing English new town, this paper reflects on the experience of multicultural settlement in what might be described as an ordinary city, one in which that experience is relatively recent and whose identity is constantly in the process of being made and remade. It draws on qualitative research, based around semi structured interviews, participant observation and the use of focus groups, to develop its conclusions. Moving beyond any notion that minority ethnic communities live ‘parallel lives’, the paper identifies and explores some of the ways in which the new city spaces of Milton Keynes are actively lived, negotiated and understood by the Ghanaian and Somali communities (and particularly by young people from those communities). It highlights the tensions between the ways in which difference is negotiated in practice and attempts to define communities through processes of governance.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1469-9540 |
| Funders: | ESRC |
| Keywords: | community; diversity; multiculture; new city spaces; ordinary city; policy; urban spaces; young people |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Social Policy and Criminology Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Design, Development, Environment and Materials |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) |
| Item ID: | 26030 |
| Depositing User: | Allan Cochrane |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2011 09:47 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2012 16:34 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/26030 |
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