Abstract
ABSTRACTThis paper aims to identify housing disadvantages faced by migrants and ethnic minorities; the legal, policy and market forces that shape them; how they have developed over time; how they are manifest nationally and locally; and how they are being responded to locally by those concerned with mitigating them. The paper thereby intends to provide a foundation to inform future research and policy and to engage with local actors to develop ways of overcoming migrant housing disadvantage and challenging discrimination. The paper finds that the interplay of legal changes, which have increasingly differentiated migrants since the 1940s, and shifting housing markets, has driven exclusion of migrants and minorities such that considerable disadvantage is revealed by analysis of census data. However, attention to local specificity provides evidence of positive responses. Examples are presented in relation to access to affordable housing, enactment of homelessness duties and community actions. Methodologically, this paper highlights the importance of simultaneous consideration of migration and ethnicity as markers of difference and exclusion, and the potential of co-production approaches for socially meaningful research concerned with inequalities.
Highlights
This paper aims to identify housing disadvantages and discrimination ascribed to ethnicity and to migratory status, the forces that shape them, how these have developed over time and how they are manifest nationally and locally
In the context of previous studies, using the 2011 Census enables us to get a picture of the major tenure differences in relation to country of origin and date of arrival; and we present a timeline of significant developments in housing and migration law and policy, supplemented by the numbers and types of migrants arriving at different times
The interplay of these changes and shifting housing markets has led over several decades to migrants and minorities being in disadvantaged housing positions, and there is evidence of considerable housing disadvantage for migrants and minorities from the 2011 Census
Summary
This paper aims to identify housing disadvantages and discrimination ascribed to ethnicity and to migratory status, the forces that shape them, how these have developed over time and how they are manifest nationally and locally. This paper aims to reflect on co-production approaches which have been used in developing some of the arguments and their potential in developing further research and policy and practical solutions that could tackle the problems that are identified. This paper is part of a Special Issue that provides new insights into the relationships between ethnicity and place from the perspective of a broader S. The work has been conducted within the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and reflects an interdisciplinary approach, as discussed in the Introduction to this Special Issue (Finney, Clark, and Nazroo 2018)
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