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Centre for Study of democracy: International Community Project

Centre for Study of democracy: International Community Project. Department of Politics and International Relations . Where are we so far: . Centre for Study of Democracy: Democracy & Education Network (DEN) International Community Project (ICP) Student Forums Project

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Centre for Study of democracy: International Community Project

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  1. Centre for Study of democracy: International Community Project Department of Politics and International Relations

  2. Where are we so far: Centre for Study of Democracy: Democracy & Education Network (DEN) • International Community Project (ICP) • Student Forums Project • Momentum Student Research

  3. Four GICP - Research Groups • Middle East • L. America • East Africa • South Asia

  4. L. America: aims and rationales • Geographical location • To differentiate between various waves of LA immigration to London. • 1970s - the Immigration Act 1971. • Refugees in the 1980’s and 1990’s, or 2000’s – economic immigration. 

  5. L. America: aims and rationales • Employment • Education • Language as a barrier to employment • Level of integration, first and second generation • Assimilation, alienation and exclusion • Race and Racism   • Political participation in local and general election

  6. L. America: Plan for the future • Visit community • Language, Spanish, spoken in the team • Interviews

  7. East Africa: aims and rationales • Sudanese community • Integration, inclusion and exclusion • The role of community • Social issues • Refugee: when they came here • Remittance

  8. East Africa: Plan for the future • To organise a trip to community • Invite the community leaders • Arranging meeting executive office • Any suggestions? please feel free

  9. South Asia: aims and rationales Interest: Burma: going through the political transition to democracy • Identify the Burmese community in London • Involvement in British politics • Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka • Ethnic divisions between these communities and the sub-divisions within them such as Kashmir and the Tamil’s • Conducting research with the youth • Comparing the cultural differences and fusion of western values- which individuals who were born here hols compared to those who immigrated here and divisions within generations.

  10. South Asia: Plan for the future • Visit the community • Interviews

  11. Middle East – Turkey / Kurdish: aims and rationales • Mainly concentrated in Boroughs of Haringey, Hackney and Enfield. • Intergenerational issues • Interaction between generations is fractured over lifestyle choices • Turkish values and identity •  Links to Turkey as many community groups are involved in political issues there • Refugees and remittances • Democracy and civic participation

  12. Middle East – Turkey / Kurdish: Plan • Visit to community • Link to community • Inviting community leaders

  13. Some examples of what we can do for next meeting: Somalis • 100,000 - official 2006, • 38,000 Moslems • Late 19th Century, as • Seamen in the British Merchant Navy and settled in most port cities • A second wave of Somali immigrants started arriving with the British Navy during the Second World War

  14. When/why did they come to the UK? • Due to the demand for labour in the steel industry • Sheffield and South Yorkshire were among the first places the Somalis settled • Community originally settled on arrival in the 1940s • The most recent Somali migrants arrived mainly as refugees in the late 1980s

  15. Community today • Heterogeneous group made up of: • long-settled local communities, civil war refugee families and recent arrivals from Europe • Somaliland, Southern Somalis

  16. What else?

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