Diverse Places Case Studies Flashcards
Causeway Coast, NI (rural places perceived as idyllic)
- area of outstanding national beauty
- UNESCO world heritage site
- National Nature Reserve
- managed by National Trust but land owned by private landowners
- secluded beaches, numerous historic & natural landmarks
- tranquility
London & South-East (significant internal movement of ppl within UK = uneven demographic & cultural patterns)
- major towns in SE = Reading, Slough
- population increase 6.4% in SE from 2001-2011
- population of 8.7 million in London to roughly 100,000 in most rural areas
Why:
- runs along M4 motorway
- high tech industries
- Heathrow airport (immigration)
- population density highest in city centre but lower in north of UK
- students migrate towards London for uni & stay for jobs
(Indian Sub-Continent & West Indies (significant international migration flows from former colonies to UK) & from European Union
- post war migration (3 million Caribbean’s settled in Brixton)
- Indians settle in south all, migrate for jobs & better life
Significant international migration to UK from European Union
21st century: EU 2004 free migration from A8, newly joined countries (Poland)
- for low paid jobs
East Europeans in Evesham, UK (some int. migrants choose to live on rural areas, creating social challenges & opportunities)
- low skilled jobs in agriculture etc. where businesses house workers
- lack of competition for jobs in rural areas
Social challenges:
- bad quality housing & poor quality of life
- rural areas unused to migration = confusion & tension
- migrants are unfamiliar with local rules (hard for police, services)
- local competition for housing
Social opportunities:
- new foreign speaking teachers
- fill labour locals dont want to do
- improve the of housing structure for foreigners
Saville Town (West Yorkshire, UK) (frequent tensions over diversity of living spaces, long term residents seek continuity & recent migrants seek change)
- Large Asian Community
- Particular high concentration of Muslims
- White flight has occurred
Controversy:
- Sharia court
- Madrasa (islamic schools) failing ofsted inspections
- Home town of some extremists
- Tension between old residents and new migrants
Budapest, Hungary (migrants may experience sense of social exclusion, as some groups perceive migrants as threat to culture)
- EU votes for Hungary to be ‘a systematic threat to democracy’
- Major train station became a Syrian refugee camp in 2015
- 60% of Hungarians would be resentful of foreign migrants
- Austria cages, starves and denies Muslims migrants legal representation
Aik Saath in Slough (impact of national & local strategies in resolving issues in urban areas)
- Aik Saath have been successfull in bringing together young Asian youths
- NGO aimed at reducing tension and crime between young Asians in slough (sikhs & muslims)
- Some strategies that help with community cohesion are both small scale, Ngo-led or large scale, governmental projects
- Such as building schools, filming documentaries of redeveloping the area
- Or charity work, diversity days and cultural events in local area
Victorian London (during industrialisation, urban places were perceived by some as dangerous & threatening)
- overcrowded slums (industrial revolution = RUM)
- poor working conditions, child labour, poverty
- women result to prostitution, men to petty theft (still has old reputation)
- disease ridden (poor safe infrastructure so water supply contaminated)
BUT now gentrified, fashionable offices, restaurants, shops
Historical point for birth of epidemiology (John Snow, Cholera)
Slough (chosen local place) (statistical evidence to determine positive or negative image)
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Slough (dif media provide contrasting evidence abt image of chosen local place)
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Slough (diff representations of local places influences perception of cultural & demographic issues/conflict)
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African-Americans in USA (int. migrants tend to live in distinct places with ethnic segregation closely related to economic & social indicators)
Ferguson population
2010: 29.3% white, 67.4% black
- white police office shoots Michael Brown 2004, found no guilty, big uprise & backlash
- poor relationship between African American’s & law enforcement
- pattern of discrimination
Southall (diverse living spaces in urban areas have social characteristics that reflect ethnicity & culture
- many cultural shops, restaurants, etc.
- familiarity of language, ethnicity, social aspect
- places of worship
- lots of clustering
Lake District Rural Revival Partnerships, Northern Fells Rural Project (impact of national & local strategies on rural area
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