Geography, ethnicity, genealogy and inter-generational social inequality in Great Britain

Short Abstract

The paper makes an important contribution to geographical thinking by applying new scale-free methods to (a) ascribe geographic origins to long-established British populations, and (b) ascribe origin characteristics to more recent migrants. For the first time, we demonstrate that geographic origins and inter-generational migration history shape social mobility outcomes for long-established populations. We demonstrate that social mobility outcomes for more recent migrant groups are diverse and that conventional statistical classifications of ethnicity conceal some diversity of outcomes that arise from probable national origins, family group membership, and length of family group establishment in Britain. Click here for full article