Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness

This book explores some of the most topical issues around migration and integration in relation to Britain. It examines people smuggling as well as the elite labour migration that has become feature of Britain. It explores the acquisition and mobility of expertise in global corporate labour markets, and how sectors of British higher education fit into global student and academic markets. At the same time it examines aspects of the concepts of social capital, social cohesion and Britishness. Ethnic capital and ethnic penalties are identified and their links to religion and segregation displayed and it is shown how religion, in the form of aspects of Muslim behavior, is becoming a boundary of Britishness at a time when significant sections of the ethnic majority evinces scepticism about multiculturalism.

TARIQ MODOOD is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, UK. He has extensive academic publications, worked on numerous research projects and is a regular contributor to the media and policy debates in Britain. In 2001 he was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations.



JOHN SALT is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Migration Research Unit at University College London, UK. He is a consultant to the OECD, EU, Council of Europe, Australian and UK governments, National Audit Office and Office for National Statistics. Salt was awarded the Royal Geographical Society, Edward Heath Award for contributions to the study of population and migration in Europe.