says research group
Muslim immigrants face so much http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2993 that they don’t feel they belong here, according to a liberal research group.
As part of efforts to improve integration, it called for an improvement in public http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2071 towards Muslims.
And it said other Britons are wrong to worry about segregation and Muslim dominated enclaves, as there are benefits to “residential clustering”.
The report, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is a strike for multiculturalism, the doctrine which encourages the development of minorities.
Multiculturalism fell out of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2882 in 2005, after the Government’s equality chief Trevor Phillips warned that the country was “sleepwalking to segregation”.
Ministers have since called for the encouragement of “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2980", including more teaching of English and an end to grants being handed to organisations from single ethnic and religious groups. The study, based on interviews with 319 men and women, including 229 Muslims, found that the majority of interviewees had not experienced unfair treatment because of their colour or ethnicity.
Fewer than 50 per cent of minority members interviewed had experienced race prejudice and just 30 per cent of recent Muslim immigrants had experienced religious discrimination.
The report, produced by researchers from the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, at Oxford University, found that: “A sense of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3583 in Britain for all migrants, recent and established, was negatively affected by their perception of lack of acceptance in the UK.
“It is this perception of being unwelcome and of discrimination rather than attachment to their country of origin that diminishes a sense of belonging in British society, and there is thus a need to address public attitudes towards Muslims and towards migrants as a key component of cohesion strategy.”