John Kendall Custody blocks are the places where the hundreds of thousands of people who have been arrested each year [...]
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FOCUS: Integrated Communities, a Response to the Government’s Strategy Green Paper
John Holmwood, Gurminder K. Bhambra and Sue Scott This special issue of Discover Society represents a new initiative. We present articles [...]
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Viewpoint: Britain is a Segregated Society – the isolation of the richest from the rest
Danny Dorling Britain is a highly segregated society. It boasts the widest Gini coefficient of all the OECD countries in Europe [...]
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On the Frontline: A Long and Welcoming Tradition?
Lucy Mayblin The British government, whatever its current political stripes, loves to boast about Britain’s long, and proud, tradition of welcoming [...]
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Policy and Politics: The Role of Green Papers in Policy Development – Translating Evidence into Policy
Mark Monaghan and Jo Ingold The Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper is an ambitious document with the fundamental aim of providing [...]
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‘Telling it like it is’? A critical perspective on The Casey Review into Opportunity and Integration
Stephen Crossley The government’s Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper draws heavily on The Casey Review into opportunity and integration, undertaken by [...]
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The Government’s hostile environment and its consequences on integration
Jenny Phillimore and Nando Sigona Can you have an integrated society in a hostile environment? The UK Government’s strategy doesn’t [...]
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Fundamental British Values and Muslim Identity in Public Life
Ajmal Hussain and Nasar Meer The Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper identifies a number of barriers believed to be preventing integration [...]
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Countering extremism through integration?
Therese O’Toole Addressing ‘a vacuum on integration policy’, the government’s recent Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper constitutes the first significant attempt [...]
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Increasing economic opportunity or bolstering racial neoliberalism?
Stephen Ashe Neoliberal orthodoxy rests on the belief that ‘human well-being can be best advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and [...]
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