Wallace, Andrew and Favell, Adrian (2023) In the wake of Brexit: negotiating diversity and majority-minority relations in the North of England. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49 (8). pp. 2070-2089. ISSN 1369-183X (Print), 1469-9451 (Online) (doi:10.1080/1369183X.2023.2182555)

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Abstract

Our contribution to this special issue brings the theoretical and empirical orientations of the Becoming a Minority (BaM) project into dialogue with the complex and charged post-Brexit geography of the North of England. We present findings from the UK ESRC funded project Northern Exposure: Race, Nation and Disaffection in ‘Ordinary’ Towns and Cities after Brexit, drawing upon a period of co-productive and ethnographic work with local authority stakeholders, voluntary sector practitioners and community actors in two urban locations in the English North: Halifax and Wakefield. We report on how shifting patterns of diversity and population change interlock with deindustrialised economies, fiscal austerity, the coronavirus crisis, and the predations of ethno-nationalist politics and policy. Amid these dislocations and risks, we find delicate, differentiated, and predominantly informal infrastructures of community governance and intervention attempting to build alliances and resolve tensions: a grounded, local-vie

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 49, 2023 - Issue 8: Becoming a Minority
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Brexit; political disaffection; diversity; post-industrial; community studies
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2024 09:36
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48199

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