The ethnic makeup of Muslims varies widely by region in England.
Evidence
What the data shows most significantly is that apart from the counties with the largest percentages of Muslims (as detailed above), the ethnic makeup of Muslims in other areas is diverse and by no means evenly distributed. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 226
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: British ‘ethnic minority’ communities are internally diverse and not segregated ghettos; Muslims in England are concentrated in London and major industrial regions. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 217; British Muslims are a diverse minority diaspora, not a monolith — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 535 (+3 more)
Related
- Muslims in England are concentrated in London and major industrial regions. (similarity 0.92)
- British Muslims form one of Europe’s most ethnically and birth-origin-diverse populations. (similarity 0.89)
- British ‘ethnic minority’ communities are internally diverse and not segregated ghettos (similarity 0.87)
- British Muslims are a diverse minority diaspora, not a monolith (similarity 0.85)
- Religious and ethnic disadvantages in Britain must be separated analytically to explain Muslim outcomes. (similarity 0.82)
- Ethnic categories fail to capture the distinct experience of British Muslims. (similarity 0.81)
- British Jews and Muslims each form internally diverse, non-monolithic communities. (similarity 0.81)
- British Muslims are less residentially segregated than other religious groups. (similarity 0.81)
- Census ethnicity categories poorly capture British Muslim experience as proxies (similarity 0.80)
- The global Muslim population of 1.8 billion is internally diverse and geographically dispersed (similarity 0.80)
- British ethnic minority communities are less segregated than US nonwhite minorities (similarity 0.80)
- Global Muslim practice is internally diverse across sects and regions. (similarity 0.80)
- Existing census ethnicity categories fail to capture Muslim experience as a distinct category. (similarity 0.79)
- Lack of religious census categories hid Muslims within ethnic and birth-country data (similarity 0.79)
- British Muslims are now a larger, younger, and more organized community than in 1997. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- British Muslims are a diverse minority diaspora, not a monolith
#corroborates(0.92) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 535 - Islam has varied regionally and adapted to historical transformations.
#expands(0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 160 - Census ethnicity categories poorly capture British Muslim experience as proxies
#qualifies(0.78) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 112