This volume charts recent changes and trends in various social, community and economic features of Britain's black and ethnic minority population, together with its interaction with public policy. The analysis in each chapter is followed by the exploration of possible avenues and dilemmas policy-makers encounter in light of some of the existing models and within the context of wider policies likely to be purusued by different political parties. The central theme of the book is that different ethnic minority communities are at different points of development in terms of both disadvantages and achievements. The book emphasizes the need to evolve sensitive but bold approaches which draw inspiration from a variety of existing and relatively effective models for community development and counter-discrimination.
Part 1 Identity and society: social change, identity and the state. Part
2 Law and society: racial discrimination, diversity and the law in Europe;
the use of British race law by individual complainants; contemporary legal
issues and the state. Part 3 Social policy: race, diversity and educational
attainment; race, health and social services. Part 4 Housing, enterprise and
urban policy: housing, equity, ethnicity and the state; urban policy, race
equality and the state; what next? - strategies, discourses and agendas.
