ABSTRACT
The presence of those designated as being of mixed ethnicity has been a source of celebration and anxiety across countries. Nowhere is this more evident than in Great Britain where the last decade, since mixed-group categories were first included in the national Censuses, has seen a proliferation of interest in the implications for conceptions of ethnicity and ‘race’ and understandings of social stratification, social interaction and national identity. There has been increasing media as well as academic attention paid to the ‘mixed’ population of Great Britain, supported by claims that it is the ‘fastest growing minority group’ (Phillips 2009; see also Rees et al. 2010: ix, 2011). Its growth and apparent visibility is used as a means of marking the changing and developing composition of British society.
