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Race Relations
A series of recent surveys by MORI and other agencies have thrown considerable light on the current state of race relations in Britain and the hopes and fears of the minority ethnic communities.
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Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers - Trend
Q In general, why do you think someone would leave their own country to seek asylum as a refugee in another country? And for what other reasons?
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Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers for 'Refugee Week'
A poll by MORI Social Research Institute, and published on the eve of Refugee Week, tried to ascertain the British public's attitudes to refugees and asylum seekers, their knowledge about refugees and their perception of the media coverage.
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63 Per Cent Say Asylum-Seeking Children Should Have Access To Local Schools
Nearly two-thirds of people (63%), and seven out of ten Labour voters (71%), believe that children seeking asylum should have the same access to schools as British children.
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Race Is No Barrier To 'Being British'
Race Is No Barrier To 'Being British', but there is no consistent sense of 'Britishness'
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Who's Asking? Answers May Depend On It
Last November we conducted a survey of British Asians on their attitudes to the military strikes in Afghanistan and to the War against Terrorism for Eastern Eye, a weekly newspaper aimed at Britain's Asian community. Over a third of the interviews were conducted by Asian interviewers. Therefore, in an interesting spin-off to the research we decided to look at whether or not the ethnicity of the interview made a difference on the answers given i.e. was there an interviewer effect? A number of studies in the United States and the in UK have been carried out looking into this phenomenon and several show that where the ethnicity of interviewer and respondent are matched, the responses yielded are different from those where they are not. These studies also suggest, however, that the interviewer effect only tends to be important when the subject of the survey is sensitive to the respondents' ethnicity or cultural background — which is what we found.
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Effect Of Candidate Ethnicity In The British General Elections Of 1997 And 2001
Statistical analysis of constituency results in the last two general elections strongly suggests that ethnic minority (Black or Asian) candidates secure a smaller share of the vote for their parties than do white candidates. While it is not possible to prove from the evidence why this is the case, the obvious presumption must be that it is caused by racist voters being deterred from voting for an ethnic minority candidate. The effect was strongest in the case of Labour candidates, depressing their vote share by more than three-and-a-half percentage points, but was also present for Liberal Democrats; however, there was no statistically significant loss of votes found in the case of Conservative ethnic minority candidates.