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September 25, 2005
UK: Forced and Arranged Marriages Create Asian Ghettos
Earlier in the week, Trevor Phillips, Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, stated that Britain was developing, in its urban environments, segregated ghettos. In a report in the Telegraph he stated:
"As a country, we are not talking across the ethnic, religious and colour lines," he said. "There is more residential segregation, we are reaching US levels. We are not making friends across the colour line. When we leave work, we leave multi-ethnic Britain behind. We are going in the wrong direction. Our worry is that this is fertile breeding ground for extremists."Today, an article in the Sunday Times argues that the custom of forced and arranged marriages in Britain's Asian communities was fuelling this ghettoisation, with families still preferring to marry their offspring to someone from the Indian sub-continent. Information from Migration Watch has shown that the number of partners from the subcontinent doubled between 1996 and 2001, when 22,000 were granted rights of entry to Britain.
It is estimated that 60% of Pakistani and Bangladeshi marriages in Bradford in 2001 involved a spouse from the subcontinent. Almost a third of all children born in Bradford now have foreign mothers. In the London borough of Tower Hamlets the figure is 68%.Trevor Phillips had said the number of people of Pakistani origin living in such ghettos had trebled during this same period. Migration Watch has suggested that arranged marriages should be discouraged, but not made illegal, and some sort of test should be introduced, to prove some family connection, before allowing entry visas.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 25, 2005 7:13 PM
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