ABSTRACT
Britain’s ‘ethnic minority’ community has grown steadily in the postwar era. According to the 1991 census, it totalled just over three million, representing 5.5 per cent of the British population.1 The 1990 Labour Force surveys (LFS) pointed out that this population was heavily concentrated in the South-East region-with 42 per cent living in Greater London, compared to 10 per cent of the white population. African-Caribbeans in particular are even more heavily concentrated in the south-east, with 55 per cent living in London2. The 1991 census also found that 43 per cent of all ‘ethnic minorities’ living in London born in Britain. A later study found that over half of African-Caribbeans living in London were UK-born (Storkey 1994).
