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Democratic Governance and Ethnic Minorty Participation (2000-2005)

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ESRC
Research Team
Professor John Solomos, South Bank University
Professor Michael Keith
Dr Kalbir Shukra
Professor Les Back
Azra Khan

A joint CUCR/South Bank University ESRC funded project will address the question of the changing forms of political participation among ethnic minority communities in contemporary Britain. This project will study the participation of ethnic minorities in conventional forms of democratic activity and the role of participation within the alternative public sphere of ethnic minority civil society.

The research will be focussed on three localities: two in London and one in Birmingham. The team will also investigate the role of organisations and movements that have emerged within minority communities to give voice to specific interests or concerns.