New data reveals how British immigration has evolved to including not just people from Commonwealth client states, but from wide range of countries beyond traditional migration patterns. BBC l Mapping
From The Independent, 22 Sept: "Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality [issued] a warning today that the country is 'sleepwalking' into US-style racial segregation, with areas of major cities becoming 'fully fledged ghettos... We are becoming strangers to each other and leaving communities to be marooned.'
"The new Home Office commission, reflecting the CRE's alarm, will be charged with forging links with young people from Muslim and other non-Christian groups. As well as potentially tackling the roots of terrorism, it could also be asked to find ways of building bridges between ethnic minority groups living parallel lives. It will get off the ground as quickly as possible and tour throughout the country, with the aim of making contact with groups traditionally excluded from political debate."
See also Mr. B-Fine Finoki's recent round-up on the clearing of a London housing estate.
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From The Independent, 22 Sept: "Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality [issued] a warning today that the country is 'sleepwalking' into US-style racial segregation, with areas of major cities becoming 'fully fledged ghettos... We are becoming strangers to each other and leaving communities to be marooned.'
"The new Home Office commission, reflecting the CRE's alarm, will be charged with forging links with young people from Muslim and other non-Christian groups. As well as potentially tackling the roots of terrorism, it could also be asked to find ways of building bridges between ethnic minority groups living parallel lives. It will get off the ground as quickly as possible and tour throughout the country, with the aim of making contact with groups traditionally excluded from political debate."
See also Mr. B-Fine Finoki's recent round-up on the clearing of a London housing estate.
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