Multiculturalism in UK Cities (London)

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Globalisation has made it easier for people to move around the world. In cities, this has led to the rise of multiculturalism, where lots of different cultural or ethnic groups live side by side.

In this video we team up with Dr Mary Kelly from Kingston University London, to explore multiculturalism in London: a city home to more that 50 different cultural communities who have arrived here over the last 500 years. The video asks why people of different ethnic backgrounds are clustered in different parts of the city and investigates the processes behind this, through story of one of London's major cultural groups: West Indian migrants (the Windrush Generation).

We would like to thank Tony Warner from Black History Walks and the Black Cultural Archives for helping make this video possible.

Acknowledgements

Written and developed by: Mary Kelly, Rob Parker, Harriet Ridley, Tim Parker, Simon Ross

Videography by: Oliver Draper, Rob Parker

Thank you to Lambeth Council for giving permission for this video to be filmed in Brixton.

Attributions

Ethnic groups in London maps by SkateTier are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

British Nationality Act 1948 is licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0

Low Conga Wet audio clip by Satoration is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Image of Jamaican women is licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0

Jamaican village scene image is licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0

Trafalgar Square London 1946 is licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0

HMT Empire Windrush image is in the Public Domain

Cooper Ward, Townlands Hospital image by Antony Ewart Smith is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

West Indian RAF Volunteers image is in the Public Domain

Clapham South deep shelter (north) image by Mike Quinn is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Clapham South Deep Level Shelter image 1 by Sam Town is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Clapham South deep-level shelter image 2 by David Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0