{"id":276945,"date":"2016-11-02T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T13:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/call-for-action-to-tackle-growing-ethnic-segregation-across-uk\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T13:42:33","slug":"call-for-action-to-tackle-growing-ethnic-segregation-across-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/call-for-action-to-tackle-growing-ethnic-segregation-across-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Action To Tackle Growing Ethnic Segregation Across UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Politicians must urgently tackle the increasing ethnic polarisation of many of Britain\u2019s towns and cities, according to a senior academic, as he revealed figures showing how rapidly the white British population had dwindled in urban \u201cpockets\u201d across England.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Ted Cantle, who first authored a report into community cohesion after a series of race riots in 2001, said his new study showed that in the most extreme cases the white British population had more than halved in two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Cantle, who co-authored the report with Prof Eric Kaufmann at Birkbeck, University of London, told the Guardian that white British families should be encouraged to remain in ethnically diverse areas to reduce the trend.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that segregated societies \u201cbreed intolerance and prejudice\u201d, adding: \u201cAnd we know the opposite is true \u2013 there is a huge amount of research that shows any form of contact does break down stereotypes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leading academic said he would not describe the trend as white flight because that indicated that people were moving because of ethnic mixing, while this research only established the facts and not necessarily the causes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite people are leaving urban areas in a disproportionate number \u2013 and they avoid moving to diverse areas when they do move. But we can\u2019t say that is white flight because the motivations are many and various,\u201d he said, arguing it could be to do with the dream of a place in the country or an older cohort retiring to rural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/call-for-action-to-tackle-growing-ethnic-segregation-across-uk\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians must urgently tackle the increasing ethnic polarisation of many of Britain\u2019s towns and cities, according to a senior academic, as he revealed figures showing how rapidly the white British population had dwindled in urban \u201cpockets\u201d across England. Prof Ted Cantle, who first authored a report into community cohesion after a series of race riots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}