Nonwhite origins, Anglo destinations: immigrants in the USA and Britain

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511489228.016

13 - Nonwhite origins, Anglo destinations: immigrants in the USA and Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009

Edited by

Tariq Modood and

Suzanne Model: Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Glenn C. Loury: Affiliation:
Boston University
Tariq Modood: Affiliation:
University of Bristol
Steven M. Teles: Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Massachusetts

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Until very late in the twentieth century, the USA was the setting for most statistical studies of ethnic inequality; Canada ranked second, Australia a distant third. This situation reflected the high proportions of immigrants in these countries and the large amount of information that researchers could obtain about the foreign born. After World War II, however, the numbers immigrating to Europe began to grow. Today, annual immigration to Europe is twice as high as annual immigration to the “New World” (Widgren 1994). As a result, Europe's immigrants have attracted increasing amounts of research attention. Indeed, several European nations now field surveys explicitly designed to illuminate the experiences of their ethnic minorities.

Studies of Britain's ethnic minorities stand at the forefront of this new scholarship. The first survey specifically devoted to this population was launched in 1966; more exhaustive studies followed in 1974, 1982, and 1994. To be sure, in the early years, the data collected in these surveys were available only to a small group of scholars. But today researchers can obtain the responses to the 1994 National Survey of Ethnic Minorities on CD-ROM from the Data Archive at Essex University. Of course, already in the late 1980s, the British Labour Force Survey was available on computer tape; by 1993 the UK Census was accessible on the University of Manchester's mainframe. And each year new sources of information on Britain's immigrants and minorities become available.

Type: Chapter
Information: Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy
Comparing the USA and UK
, pp. 363 - 392

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489228.016 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2005

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