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White people living in the UK's second
biggest city are likely to find themselves in a minority in 20 years'
time, according to researchers.
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Birmingham is likely to become a minority
white city in 2027
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A team of demographers from Manchester
University has claimed that the number of White people living in
Birmingham will be overtaken by the number of those with other ethnic
origins by 2027.
The news came as it emerged that 35 towns and cities in Britain have at
least one ward which is "minority White".
And experts have already forecast that
Leicester could become the first city in which White people are a
minority in four years' time.
Ludi Simpson, a social statistician at
Manchester University, said the Pakistani population in Birmingham was
likely to double by 2026, but with two-thirds of this increase due to
the relatively younger age profile of Pakistanis, rather than increased
immigration.
Dr Simpson said: "The overall picture is
one of rapid natural growth plus some immigration, mainly of young
spouses.
"Birmingham is likely to become a
minority White city in 2027, but a diverse one in which the White
population remains more than twice the size of the Pakistani population
which is predicted to become one fifth of the district's population by
then."
But hopes that different ethnic groups
could assimilate into a "common identity" in towns and cities were
dismissed by Dr Sullivan as "utopian in quite a dangerous way" and
"completely unrealistic".
He added that the suburbs, rather than
town and city centres were the "sites of real tension".
"Lack of affordable housing, poor
environments and anti-social behaviour are the issues, not ethnic
composition nor segregation itself," he said.
Nissa Finney, also from Manchester
University, told the Royal Geographical Society's annual conference
that 35 towns and cities in Britain had at least one ward which was
"minority White". These included Birmingham, Burnley, Slough,
Peterborough, Bolton and Derby, as well as Brent, Tower Hamlets, Ealing
and Newham within London.
Miss Finney said the increasing
proportion of non-Whites in these wards was more linked with "natural
population dynamics" like moving areas to be nearer family or friends,
than with immigration.
She told the conference: "Clustering is
the result of benign and natural population dynamics. There is no
evidence of self-segregation or exceptional 'White flight'."
Last year, Trevor Phillips, the-then
chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, said that
"tough decisions" will have to be made as some more areas become
"plural cities" where no one race holds a majority.
Mr Phillips said: "Events across Europe
have shown how segregation breeds mistrust and fracture.
BPP Comment: - Even ZOG admits it's
official - Multi-racialism is a disastrous failure!
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