Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham

This book offers a positive story of integration and defends the principles of equality and diversity, highlighting the variety of migrant experience and offering an antidote to the fear-mongering of the tabloid press.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2019
Publisher: Unbound

Indispensable . . . Speaks of hope and courage . . . Observer . . . An ode to openness, offering a refreshing alternative to those accounts that treat migrants as faceless statistics . . . David Lammy MP . . . A highly informed and eloquent account of life in a modern British city during a period of globalisation, austerity, and mass migration . . . Patrick Cockburn, Independent . . . Race and migration are the most prominent and divisive issues in British politics today . . . As Brexit and the dangers of Islamist extremism are being used to reassert a closed British identity, these stories – of fifty migrants, first and second generations; men and women; from thirteen different countries, from Ireland to India, Pakistan to Poland, the Caribbean to Somalia – highlight the variety of migrant experience and offer an antidote to the fear-mongering of the tabloid press . . . This positive story of integration is all too rarely told, and it offers a firm defence of the principles of equality and increased diversity . . . Our City shows why mixed, open societies are the way forward for twenty-first-century cities, and how migrants help modern Britain not only survive but prosper .

Weight: 610g
Dimension: 161 x 242 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783527168