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Immigration control
Many writers claim that immigration controls have been used unfairly to discriminate against non-white immigrants whereas those from Australia and European countries have been accepted into the UK without control. In 1993 the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act was actually designed to limit immigration and reduce the number of asylum seekers. It acted to remove the right of appeal against the decision to deport people. Asylum seekers also lost their right to housing. There were a number of incidents which embarrassed the government over the implementation of the laws.
Unemployment
Official figures for January 2001 show that unemployment rates for ethnic minority men is twice that for white men. The ethnic minority groups which are most likely to be unemployed are Black Caribbeans and Black Africans at nearly four times the average rate. The group least likely to suffer unemployment is Indian men. Possibly because these are likely to be middle class in terms of education. The trends are exaggerated in the case of women. Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are unemployed at a rate of 23.9% which is five times the average for all women.
Michael E Brown
There are three types of ethnic conflict: Systemic conflict occurs when groups live close to one another. Groups may launch attacks to gain advantage.
Domestic conflict relates to groups who feel vulnerable and they attempt to break away from the more powerful people who will submerge their culture. Perceptual explanations relate to how groups are trained to relate to each other.
John Rex
Rex believes racism to be based on belief systems.
Rex suggests that people justify their racist beliefs with dubious logic. The hate comes first, then the rationalisation.
David Mason
Institutional racism as a term has been used in five different ways: Conspiracy where people are seen to deliberately set out to discriminate. Structural Marxist where the racism is a consequence of state policy. Unintended racism results from badly designed or ethnocentric policies. Colonial racism where minority groups take on low status work. Political opportunism where racism policies are seen as popular.
Paul Gilroy
Establishing a separate cultural identity is a significant form of resistance to capitalism and to racism in imperial societies. This was once done by African Caribbeans through dance, music, art and sport. However, in post modern society, many people are adapting and adopting black cultural styles as a form of fashion. It offers people a variable identity but disenfranchises black people from ownership of their own culture hence the drive to keep developing new styles that black people can own as their styles become adopted by the fashionable.