Tag: Ethnicity

Long-term ill health and work

March 19, 2014

Long-term ill health and the social embeddedness of work: a study in a post-industrial, multi-ethnic locality explores the work experiences of long-term sick people in East London, a post-industrial, multi-ethnic locality. It demonstrates how the individual experiences of long-term sickness and work are embedded in social relations of class, generation, ethnicity and gender, which shape people’s formal … More Long-term ill health and work

Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods

February 19, 2014

Life Satisfaction, Ethnicity and Neighbourhoods: Is There an Effect of Neighbourhood Ethnic Composition on Life Satisfaction? is a Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration Working Paper. The paper uses Understanding Society to explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. Download the Working Paper from the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration website

Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods

February 11, 2014

Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction? is an ISER Working Paper. The paper explores the differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. It tests the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by less favourable individual and area … More Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods

Ethnicity and identity the UK

January 19, 2014

A note on ethnicity and identity among the UK born population in Understanding Society is an ISER Working Paper. The paper takes a first look at how the UK born identify across different dimensions (ethnicity, religion, political beliefs and region), to what extent the strength of attachment across these prescribed and elective identities strengthen or substitute each … More Ethnicity and identity the UK

Britishness and identity assimilation

December 18, 2013

Britishness and identity assimilation among the UK’s minority and majority ethnic groups is an Understanding Society Working Paper. The paper uses Understanding Society to explore patterns of dual minority and majority identification among the UK’s minority ethnic groups. Download the Working Paper from the Understanding Society website.  

Minority groups’ national, ethnic and religious identity

July 29, 2013

Minority groups’ national, ethnic and religious identity: investigating generational change investigates whether minority ethnic groups in Britain show identity assimilation in the second generation. Making use of the Ethnic Minority British Election Survey (EMBES) for 2010, it considers what evidence there is for identity assimilation across generations in Britain, whether there is a substitution of religious for ethnic identities … More Minority groups’ national, ethnic and religious identity