In December 2016 the government published The Casey Review into ‘opportunity and integration’. The review was commissioned in response to concerns about religious and political extremism in the UK, community divisions, and social and economic disadvantage. As the diversity of the nation has increased, there have been growing concerns about social integration. The Casey Review argues that although minority groups have become more dispersed, in some cases they have also become more segregated.
This article considers that claim in the context of recent changes to London’s population. The size of London, its colonial past, its history as a major port and its employment opportunities have long attracted migrants, resulting in an ethnically diverse population quite different from that in the rest of the UK. A simple marker of this is to look at the percentage of the resident population that identified as white British in the last national census (which took place in 2011). For England and Wales, omitting London, the percentage was 86.6%. For London it was almost half that, at 44.9%.
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