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Migration and social mobility
The life chances of Britain's minority ethnic communitiesThe creation of a more open society and improving race equality are core current policy concerns. Understanding the roles of class and ethnicity in determining life chances is critical to policies tackling inequality and promoting opportunity. This report aids such understanding by investigating the impact of class background and ethnicity on class position. FREE pdf version available online at www.jrf.org.uk
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Discovering child poverty
The creation of a policy agenda from 1800 to the presentThis book charts key British developments in child welfare, child poverty research and state support for children from 1800 to the present day. With direct quotations from key sources, it argues that even in the face of clear evidence of hardship the response of policy makers to child poverty has been ambivalent.
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Poverty and ethnicity in the UK
A wide-ranging review of the literature relating to poverty and ethnicity has identified the stark differences in rates of poverty according to ethnic group. This review brings together all the available evidence on different aspects of poverty and examines what has (and has not) been studied in relation to its causes. A free pdf version of this report is available online at www.jrf.org.uk
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Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity
Chronic ill-health is now recognised as a major public health and social welfare issue, with significant new policy initiatives in recent months. This report presents findings from a detailed new investigation into the experiences of individuals living with long-term ill-health and their families. New in-depth qualitative material is combined with secondary analyses of national datasets to examine the ways in which long-term ill-health impacts upon different dimensions of poverty. A free pdf version of this report is available online at www.jrf.org.uk
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