Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration

Call for papers

A session of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference

Manchester, 26-28th August 2009

Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the ESRC Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme


To offer a paper to the session, submit your details (name, institution, email address) and an abstract (max. 250 words) to
Nissa.Finney@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 23rd January 2009.

Session organisers: Nissa Finney (University of Manchester), Gemma Catney (University of Manchester), John Stillwell (University
of Leeds)

Session description

In Britain and other European countries, recent years have seen a shift in ethnic integration policy from multiculturalism to community cohesion. With this shift has come a renewed emphasis on place and residential mixing. This session explores two themes
of these debates. The first theme is patterns of settlement of immigrants and their subsequent migrations that are changing sub-national ethnic geographies. What factors and processes influence these patterns of settlement and migrations? Do they differ between ethnic/migrant groups? What are their implications for ethnic integration, residentially and otherwise? The second theme of the session is the meaning of ethnic residential mixing. Is residential mixing associated with greater integration in other spheres? What are the causal connections between the residential composition of areas and structural and social integration in these locales and beyond?

The session is sponsored by the ESRC’s Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme. It aims to showcase research being undertaken within the Ethnicity stream of this programme and to present a forum for dialogue between UPTAP
researchers, other researchers in the UK and overseas, and policy makers. Speakers are welcome from outside the UPTAP programme, and UPTAP will cover conference costs for all speakers.

Particular topics of the session may include:

Settlement and secondary migration of recent immigrants (e.g. EU Accession immigrants, dispersed asylum seekers/refugees)
Internal migration patterns of ethnic groups: reinforcing or reducing residential segregation?
Housing and migration experiences of immigrant/ethnic groups
Differences in migration experiences for immigrant/ethnic groups for different life stage, social classes, family contexts
Motivations for migration and characteristics of migrants
Mapping and monitoring migration of minority groups
The significance of ethnic residential mixing for health, employment, experience of crime, relationships, social mobility.

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Nissa Finney
Research Fellow

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