Multicultural Societies UK Flashcards
What is an Asylum Seeker?
Someone who has fled their home country to find a safe place elsewhere.
What is the basic definition of a multicultural society?
The status of several different, ethnic, racial, religious or cultural groups coexisting in harmony in the same society.
It is a state which an individual has…
…embraced the desire and developed the skills to feel comfortable and to communicate effectively with people of any culture encountered.
What percent of the total U.K. population is white?
92.1%
Ethnic population comprise of…
7.9% of the population
6 reasons why U.K. developed into a multicultural society?
- After WW2, labour shortages
- Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948 at Tilbury London. Over 500 men from West Indies
- Migration from South Asia - India Pakistan and Bangladesh (South Asian Countries)
- Enforced legislation and laws - Race Relations Act.
- Asylum Seekers from Africa - Kenyan Asians
- EU expansion in 2003
- Migration from Middle East - Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
What happened after WW2?
- Some troops from other colonies settled in the UK
- Shortage of labour workers in factories.
- The UK required workers and so advertised job opportunities in the West Indies. Led to Empire Windrush in 1948 - 50.
What is the Empire Windrush?
- Hundreds of men delivered to Tillbury, London on 22 June 1948 from the West Indies.
- This was to answer the labour shortage in the UK after the war.
- This was the start of racial tensions in some areas
In the 1960s to 70s…
- Migrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh entered the UK.
- Race Relations Act was introduced in Nov 1965 to tackle racial prejudice.
- Kenyan Asians with British passports flee to Britain due to conflict in Kenya and after independence.
- Restricted commonwealth immigration, making it harder to enter the UK.
- Immigrant population reaches over 3 million.
In the 1970s to 90s…
- Ugandan Asian’s seek refuge in the UK.
- New arrivals were mainly wives, children and relatives reuniting with family members.
- Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1998 - Eastern Europeans flee political conflict.
- Increased Asylum Seeker applications.
In 2000 and onwards, developments included…
- EU expansion in 2003 meant that there was unrestricted migration of citizens from Poland, Czech, Hungary and Romania.
- They migrate to work in rural areas which have not experience had flux of ethnic groups.
Demographic issues are?
- Social
- Political
- Economical
- Positive impacts
Ways to build integrated society are?
- Spoken English Language courses for immigrants.
- Parents facilitate English learning for children at home.
- Improving literacy in deprived areas.
- Community projects.
- Social housing for integration.
Political issues include…
- Political Extremism
- Enforcement of laws
- Government legislation to increase migration restrictions (UK Passport)
Social issues include…
- Housing - tensions, poor communities, deprivation, council housing, Overcrowding.
- Education - resources, misunderstanding, domination, crowding and isolation.
- Persecution - faith, cultural, rioting (London)
- Closed communities - isolation, language barriers, concern of activities.
