Abstract
Within the present decade, and thanks largely to an infiux of Asians from Africa in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Leicester, a modest and somewhat unprepossessing town in the Midlands - what has become known to the tourist trade as 'The Heart of England' - will be home to the UK's first majority non-white population (Index, 3/02). Not that Leicester is any stranger to migration: since at least the nineteenth century, the city's prosperity has been built on the labour of incomers from less fortunate parts of the UK as well as from the former empire. For some years, the East Midlands Oral History Archive at Leicester University has been recording the personal histories of many of the migrants. Below, we present a range of their voices.
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