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How can housing organisations respond to Louise Casey’s review into integration?

How can housing organisations respond to Louise Casey’s review into integration?

December 7, 2016

As Dame Louise Casey’s independent review into opportunity and integration reveals the challenges facing the UK CIH’s senior policy advisor John Perry asks how housing organisations can contribute. Louise Casey asks some uncomfortable questions about Britain’s failure to integrate newcomers to the country. She’s not the first to have done so, but has produced the latest […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: migration policy, race, community cohesion

Book Review: Interculturalism: the new era of cohesion and diversity by Ted Cantle

Book Review: Interculturalism: the new era of cohesion and diversity by Ted Cantle

May 15, 2013

  Ted Cantle has been the author of a series of reports on Britain’s ability to deal with its growing diversity, beginning with his well-known inquiry into the causes of the race-related disturbances in northern England in 2001 (Cantle, 2001). He identified one of their main causes as being the ‘parallel lives’ led by different […]

Category: Migration, Book reviews | Tags: community cohesion, migration policy

Housing and migration – following up the guide

Housing and migration – following up the guide

February 12, 2013

Last July, CIH published – for the Housing and Migration Network – a UK guide to issues and solutions. It’s always good to see if guidance actually works, so I’ve been collecting a few examples since then of what housing professionals have been doing in this field.  In the case of working with migrants, one […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: community cohesion, housing

How can housing help migrants integrate into communities?

How can housing help migrants integrate into communities?

July 3, 2012

Recent discussion about migration has focused almost entirely on the numbers of people coming into the country, but debates about numbers don’t respond to the issues that emerged in the areas where migrants had gone to live and find work. While London continues to be the most attractive destination, the biggest increases in the percentage […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: community cohesion, housing

Book review: ‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? – Challenging myths about race and migration by Nissa Finney and Ludi Simpson

Book review: ‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? – Challenging myths about race and migration by Nissa Finney and Ludi Simpson

February 26, 2009

Sleepwalking to Segregation? challenges many of the myths about migration and ethnic groups in Britain.  Here are some of the myths – and the real evidence – about issues that often come up in discussion about housing and communities, as considered in the book.

Category: Migration, Book reviews | Tags: community cohesion, migration, integration, race

Welcome change

November 7, 2008

In the past, housing associations have been accused of not pulling their weight when it comes to refugees’ needs. But progress has been made, says John Perry The government likes to remind us that it has cut the numbers of people seeking asylum in the UK. These are now at just a little more than […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: community cohesion, housing

On the margins

On the margins

June 13, 2008

    As we near the third anniversary of the London bombings, it’s a good moment to reflect on whether housing organisations have done enough to engage with Muslim communities. We are all aware that there has been a backlash against Muslims, made worse every time there is a new incident or the press has […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: community cohesion

On the margins

On the margins

June 13, 2008

John Perry and Azim El Hassan As we near the third anniversary of the London bombings, it’s a good moment to reflect on whether housing organisations have done enough to engage with Muslim communities.  We are all aware that there has been a backlash against Muslims, made worse every time there is a new incident […]

Category: Migration | Tags: integration, community cohesion

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