Running, eyes open, into segregation
The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7174176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gareth Mulvey (0000-0002-9132-1672, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 387-405 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02610183241308459 |
| OpenAlex | W4407147647 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
There is an assumption in UK policy-making that there is a problem with the integration of migrant communities. This has led to political and media attention that suggests a major societal issue. This article rejects that claim but not by showing that migrants are integrated, but by changing the analytical gaze. It begins with the premise that the least integrated group in British society is not those at whom political attention is aimed. Rather than migrant communities, it is elites that live largely separate lives, and their separation is not one resulting from discrimination and/or lack of material resources, but is one actively pursued across multiple domains and transmitted inter-generationally. Using UK Government refugee integration strategies as the framework, the article examines what we know about elite integration across a multitude of domains and shows that elites live largely self-segregated lives
Elite · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Multitude · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Premise · Refugee · Social integration · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Race and Racism in Britain
Integrated Schooling, Life Course Outcomes, and Social Cohesion in Multiethnic Democratic Societies
'Sleepwalking to segregation'?Challenging myths about race and migration
Bowling Alone
Integration
Against ‘immigrant integration’
Immigration policy under New Labour
School Segregation Across the World
Private Schools and Queue-jumping
Socioeconomic segregation in European capital cities. Increasing separation between poor and rich
Fortress UK? Gated communities, the spatial revolt of the elites and time–space trajectories of segregation
A Wealth and Status-Based Model of Residential Segregation
The Road to Oxbridge
How fair is access to more prestigious UK universities
From Aristocratic to Ordinary
Negative and positive racialisation
Interrogating Segregation, Integration and the Community Cohesion Agenda
Elites
A Culture in Common
Financing elite education
Breaking the 'Class' Ceiling? Social Mobility into Britain's Elite Occupations
Entry to Elite Positions and the Stratification of Higher Education in Britain
Towards a Sociology of Resentment
A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment
Social Capital
The Power of Integration
Outsiders on the inside
Who Gets the Top Jobs? The Role of Family Background and Networks in Recent Graduates' Access to High-status Professions
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