'Sleepwalking to segregation'?
Subtitle: challenging myths about race and migration
By: Nissa Finney, Ludi Simpson
Contributors: Simpson, Ludi
Publisher: Policy
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781847424419; 9781847420077; 9781847420084
Subjects: Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Race; Emigration and immigration; Discrimination & Race Relations; Ethnicity
Description: This book explores contemporary claims about race and migration, combining an overview of the subject with new research. The authors argue that the myths of race and migration are the real threat to an integrated society and propose that diversity and mobility are expected and benign.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 'Sleepwalking to segregation'?; Contents; List of tables, figures and boxes; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Making sense of race statistics; 3. Challenging the myth that 'Britain takes too many immigrants'; 4. Challenging the myth that 'So many minorities cannot be integrated'; 5. Challenging the myth that 'Minorities do not want to integrate'; 6. Challenging the myth that 'Britain is becoming a country of ghettos'; 7. Challenging the myth of 'Minority White Cities'; 8. Conclusion; Myths and counterarguments: a quick reference summary; References.