UK integration policy shifted to banal everyday measures rather than lofty language

Evidence

Accompanying the focus on Britishness, there has been a focus on informal care and support to build integration from the ground up. Pickles’ integration policy followed in the mould of the ‘Big Society’ paraded by then-Prime Minister David Cameron as part of the Conservative Party’s 2010 election campaign, with Pickles’ ‘Big Lunch’ following in this vein. Other everyday interventions included cultivating trust between different people living in the same area through the ‘Near Neighbours’ scheme. There was then a certain banality to this integration strategy. The reference to recognizable things in everyday life – lunches, bible prayers in school and council assemblies – represented a sidestep from lofty policy language such as ‘sleepwalking to segregation’ and ‘parallel lives’. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 453

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘banal’ turn in integration strategy resonates with the reader’s interest in how definitional shifts operate through soft, everyday means rather than explicit declaration. — connects to: UK integration strategy shifted from abstract policy language to mundane everyday practices — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 448

Related

• UK integration strategy shifted from abstract policy language to mundane everyday practices (similarity 0.93)

Broader Connections

• UK integration strategy shifted from abstract policy language to mundane everyday practices #corroborates (0.95) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 448