In search of Britain's Muslim ghettoes. (September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Johnston, Ron; Manley, David; Jones, Kelvyn
• Is Part Of: Environment and planning. Volume 48:Number 9(2016)
• Page Start: 1684
• Page End: 1690
• Publication Date: 2016-09
• Subjects: Muslims -- ghettoes -- demonisation -- England and Wales; City planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; City planning; Regional planning; Periodicals; 333.7
• DOI: 10.1177/0308518X16651873
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0308-518X

Abstract

The local media have recently carried a number of stories suggesting that Muslim ghettoes are developing in British cities – a claim also made about European cities more generally. Analysis of data from the 2001 and 2011 Censuses of England and Wales suggests that these representations are journalistic hyperbole: most British Muslims live in small city blocks where they form only a minority of the local population.