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Title: From the Belgrave Road to the Golden Mile: the transformation of Asians in Leicester


1
From the Belgrave Road to the Golden Mile the
transformation of Asians in Leicester
  • Pippa Virdee
  • De Montfort University
  • 17 March 2008

2
History of migration
  • Post-war labour shortage
  • 40s 50s Afro-Caribbean
  • Early 60s Pakistani and Gujarati
  • Late 60s early 70s East African Asians

3
South Asian Migration into Leicester, 1951-2001
according to place of birth
Country 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001
India 569 1,827 11,510 18,235 20,841 24,677
Pakistan 49 109 775 1,305 1,155 1,854
Bangladesh - - 685 - - 1,051
East Africa 18 1,630 6,835 18,622 17,168 18,843
Total 636 3,566 19,805 38,162 39,164 46,425
Source Bonney, 2003 and National Census
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Religion Census 2001
6
Leicester wards since 2001
Hindus Latimer, Belgrave and Rushy Mead Muslims
Spinney Hill and Stoneygate Sikhs - scattered
7
Distinguishing features
  • Large East African presence
  • High number of twice migrants
  • Home of the Jain community
  • Multicultural role model
  • Will become the first minority white city
  • Associated problem of white flight

8
Transformation of the city
  • 1960s-1970s Reputation for racism
  • Hostility of the local press
  • Involved in the revival of the city
  • 1980s-1990s model of successful
    multiculturalism
  • Present new wave of migration
  • 10,000 Somalis via the Netherlands
  • Polish migrants

9
Themes of the workshop
  • The Leicester Role Model
  • Narrating Asian Leicester
  • Migration, Food and Integration
  • Sport and Ethnicity in Leicester
  • Religion, Identity and Dance

10
Themes and issues
  • Branding and marketing of Leicester by the city
    council
  • Role of festivals
  • Diwali, Navratri, Belgrave Mela, Caribbean
    Carnival, and Pride Mardi Gras

11
Diwali celebrations on Belgrave Road
12
Themes and issues
  • Great diversity in the religious landscape
  • Role of the city planning policy
  • Active participation by the migrant community in
    local government

13
Further research
  • Focus has been on the economic and political
    contribution of South Asians
  • Reflects the entrepreneurial background of
    migrants
  • Minorities within minorities and the
    intra-relationship
  • Relationship with the homeland
  • Complicated by the twice migrants
  • Impact and incorporation of new migrants

14
Key texts
  • J. Herbert, Joanna, Negotiating Boundaries in the
    City Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in
    Britain, (2008)
  • R. Bonney and W. Le Goff, Leicester's Cultural
    Diversity in the Context of the British Debate on
    Multiculturalism International Journal of
    Diversity in Organisations, Communities and
    Nations (2007)
  • G. Singh, Multiculturalism in Contemporary
    Britain Reflections on the 'Leicester Model
    International Journal on Multicultural Societies
    (2003)
  • P. Panayi, The Spicing up of English Provincial
    Life The History of Curry in Leicester in A.
    Kershen, Food in The Migrant Experience (2002)
  • G. Singh and J. Martin, Asian Leicester (2002)
  • M. Banks, Organizing Jainism in India and
    England, (1992)
  • V. Marrett, Immigrants Settling in the City (1989)
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