Understanding the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequality in the UK

该项目将解决的问题是核心的政策和学术理解的种族不平等和民族认同的动态：-如何随着时间的推移，随着他们的年龄增长，移民一代的经验发生了变化？第一代、第二代和第三代之间的这些经历有多大的不同？这些过程如何在不同的族裔群体中运作，包括与性别和社会经济地位等因素有关？族群认同的经验和认知如何在生命历程中展现？种族不平等的模式以及种族身份的社会和文化意义在经济背景、移民政策、政治背景、种族平等立法和社会变革方面如何随时间和地点发生变化？我们如何理解这与特定“种族”类别（如爱尔兰或穆斯林）的含义变化和新类别（如混合和波兰）的出现有关？这项研究的核心议程是改变我们对当代种族不平等模式的理解，以及这与种族身份被感知，行动和体验的方式之间的关系。要了解种族关系的当前和未来的动态，我们既需要检查当前的数据，并了解种族不平等的模式如何以及为什么随着时间的推移而发生变化，与移民到英国的模式变化有关，潜在的经济和政治背景，以及社会动态。要做到这一点，研究将汇集一个跨学科的团队，使用定量和定性的方法来了解如何的想法，并响应，种族已经改变，这对当代种族身份和不平等的影响。这项工作的价值在于项目小组能够以可用的形式汇集跨学科、跨专题和跨时期的数据，以便能够通过以下方式对这些信息进行认真和方法创新的调查：以及-所用数据和族裔类别的历史背景化：所收集的族裔调查数据的数量和质量随着时间的推移而增加和提高，为解决这些问题提供了独特的机会。我们将研究自20世纪50年代以来在英国收集的数据，以了解人口种族构成的变化，这一时期种族不平等和身份的动态以及可能推动这些变化的因素。然后，我们将把它与当代数据的分析和模式的分析和个人层面的变化的驱动因素，使用新的可用数据的调查，采访同一个人反复随着时间的推移。此外，我们将在四个选定的地方（格拉斯哥，曼彻斯特，卡迪夫和纽汉的伦敦自治市）进行研究，以获得在种族身份的经验，当地人口的种族构成，不平等的模式，以及如何与我们上面描述的代，年龄和时期的问题的变化的深入帐户。这些地区之所以被确定为需要深入研究的地区，是因为我们可以获得这些地区的相关数据，而且这些地区在历史、社会经济状况、移民模式、种族构成和国家背景方面存在重大差异。我们的研究结果将通过电子和信息技术直接传达给相关的政策和倡导组织。传播形式有：新闻（互动网页、博客、推特）、新颖的（参加政治会议、普通中等教育证书学生暑期学校、博物馆展览）和更传统的（通讯、会议、研讨会、政策论坛、学术论文）。

This project will address questions that are central to policy and academic understandings of the dynamics of ethnic inequalities and ethnic identity: -How have the experiences of migrant generations changed over time and as they have grown older?-To what extent are these experiences different between first, second and third generations?-How have these processes operated across different ethnic groups, including in relation to factors such as gender and socioeconomic position?-How do experiences and perceptions of ethnic identities unfold over the life-course?-In what ways has the patterning of ethnic inequalities and the social and cultural meaning of ethnic identities changed over time and place, in relation to economic context, migration policies, political context, legislation in relation to race equality, and social change?-How do we understand this in relation to changes in the meaning of particular 'ethnic' categories (such as Irish or Muslim) and the emergence of new categories (such as mixed and Polish)?The core agenda of this research is to transform our understanding of the contemporary patterning of ethnic inequalities and how this relates to the ways in which ethnic identities are perceived, acted upon and experienced. To understand current and future dynamics of ethnic relations, we need both to examine current data and to understand how and why the patterning of ethnic inequality has changed over time, in relation to changing patterns of migration to the UK, underlying economic and political contexts, and social dynamics. To do this the research will bring together an interdisciplinary team using quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand how ideas of, and responses to, ethnicity have changed and what impact this has on contemporary ethnic identities and inequalities. The value of the work will result from the project team's ability to bring together data from across disciplines, across topics and over time, in a usable form in order to enable a careful and methodologically innovative interrogation of this information through: -The interlinking of existing quantitative, qualitative and documentary data;-The generation of new data to complement existing data; and-The historical contextualisation of the data and the ethnic categories used.The quantity and quality of survey data collected on ethnicity has increased and improved over time, providing a unique opportunity to address these issues. We will examine data that have been collected since the 1950s in the UK in order to understand changes in the ethnic make-up of the population, the dynamics of ethnic inequality and identity over this period and the factors that may be driving these changes. We will then relate this to analyses of contemporary data and analyses of the pattern and drivers of change at an individual level using newly available data from surveys that interview the same individual repeatedly over time. In addition, we will conduct studies in four selected localities (Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff and the London Borough of Newham) to obtain in-depth accounts of changes in the experience of ethnic identities, the ethnic composition of the local population, the patterning of inequalities, and how these relate to the questions of generation, age and period we have described above. These areas have been identified for in-depth study because we have access to relevant data for them and because there are important differences between them in their histories, socioeconomic profiles, patterns of migration, ethnic make-up and national context.Our findings will be communicated directly to relevant policy and advocacy organisations through a combination of electronic (interactive web pages, blogs, twitter), novel (political conference participation, summer schools for GCSE students, museum exhibitions) and more traditional (newsletters, conferences, seminars, policy forums academic papers) forms of dissemination.