Chan, W.F. (2006) Re-scripting the character of Birmingham's ethnic minority population: assets and others in the stories of a multicultural city. Area, 38 (1). pp. 79-88. ISSN 0004-0894
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Birmingham has embarked on a brave attempt to broaden its planning ethos and incorporate elements of the city's diverse cultural population. A key feature of this new ethos is a re-scripting of its ethnic minorities as an asset rather than a problem. In this paper, I track the characterization of Birmingham's ethnic minorities through the newspaper archive and mobilize a politics of difference as a critical reading strategy. In so doing, I suggest the narrative form on Birmingham's ethnic minorities has persistently made apparent forms of co-existence which flag up a discontinuity between 'diversity' and the characterization of its ethnic minorities as an asset.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 3980 |
| Keywords: | Birmngham, ethnic minority, population, multicultural city, Communities. Classes. Races, Anthropology |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Communities. Classes. Races Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > Anthropology |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > Geography |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2007 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 11:59 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/3980 |
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