Contents Notes on Contributors viii Preface xiii 1 Key Questions in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1 Alice Bloch and John Solomos 2 Housing and Neighbourhoods: A UK and European Perspective 18 Malcolm Harrison and Deborah Phillips 3 New Communities: Asylum Seekers and Dispersal 39 Patricia Hynes and Rosemary Sales 4 The Continuing Significance of ‘Race’: Racism, Anti-racist Politics and Labour Markets 62 Satnam Virdee 5 Community Cohesion and National Security: Rethinking Policing and Race 93 Eugene McLaughlin 6 Health and Health Care 112 James Y. Nazroo 7 Education 138 David Gillborn and Nicola Rollock 8 Media Representations of Diversity: The Power of the Mediated Image 166 Myria Georgiou 9 Identity and Public Opinion 186 Anthony Heath, Catherine Rothon and Sundas Ali 10 Race and Ethnicity in Britain: Into the 21st Century 209 Alice Bloch and John Solomos Index 231 vii PROOF