Islam, ethnicity and South Asian religions in the London 2001 census
The paper examines the relative strengths of the cross-cutting variables of religion and ethnicity. British Muslims are often referred to as if they were a single community. The 2001 Censuses of England and Wales and Scotland demonstrate that Muslims are ethnically heterogeneous. Ethno-religious war...
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Published in | Transactions - Institute of British Geographers (1965) Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 353 - 370 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.09.2006
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Institute of British Geographers |
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Summary: | The paper examines the relative strengths of the cross-cutting variables of religion and ethnicity. British Muslims are often referred to as if they were a single community. The 2001 Censuses of England and Wales and Scotland demonstrate that Muslims are ethnically heterogeneous. Ethno-religious ward-level data for London from the 2001 census are used to test whether Islam binds together peoples of different ethnicity or whether ethnicity links groups despite religious differences. London Muslims, as a whole, are much less segregated than Sikhs, Jews or Hindus. Paradoxically this low level of overall segregation is produced by high intra-Muslim ethnic segregation. Intra South-Asian mixing irrespective of religion is greater than intra-Muslim mixing, irrespective of ethnicity. Intra-Black mixing is high irrespective of religion, while religion over-rides race and ethnicity for Christian groups. |
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Bibliography: | ArticleID:TRAN214 ark:/67375/WNG-GZ3R8M9Z-0 istex:48F7DCFD685FC657B92E9E4DB9980E817EB2BB79 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0020-2754 1475-5661 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00214.x |