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*Migration Histories > South Asian > Settling
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The Daily Telegraph, 29 June 1964 (Courtesy of The Telegraph Group 1964).
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The Daily Telegraph, 29 June 1964 (Courtesy of The Telegraph Group 1964).
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Houses in Mumbai, West India in 1883.
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Houses in Mumbai, West India in 1883. Listen to Chandra Vansadia's account of her husband's experience in England, in comparison with life in India.
* Moving Here catalogue reference (MOL) 99.84/16

As early as 1957 a Home Office document provided evidence of white flight and future segregation, which would come to characterise some northern towns and cities: 'The Nottingham, Wolverhampton and Warwickshire police say that white house-holders in better class districts resent coloured people buying houses in these districts and when this happens those who can move.'

This was supported by a 1964 article in The Daily Telegraph which reported that an Estate Agent in Southall, London had agreed to sell houses owned by Southall Residents Association exclusively to white buyers.

Original settlement patterns in greater London, the West Midlands and Yorkshire have shown limited change over the past half a century. Although there is some evidence of a move to the suburbs by particular groups, notably Indians.

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Jewish, Caribbean, South Asian and Irish communities settled on Roundhay Road in Leeds, West Yorkshire in 1966.
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Jewish, Caribbean, South Asian and Irish communities settled on Roundhay Road in Leeds, West Yorkshire in 1966.
* Moving Here catalogue reference (WYAS) CP104/83
According to the Survey of English Housing (1997-98):

  • Indians have the highest house ownership of any ethnic group at 75% compared to white English at 70%.
  • Bangladeshis have the lowest home ownership at just 28% with 72% renting.
  • Pakistanis were more evenly balanced with 59% recorded as house owners and 41% in rented accommodation.
  • 28% of older Pakistanis and Bangladeshi people live in homes without central heating and 38% live in overcrowded homes (The Guardian, 17 June 2002).
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