ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the long-term progress, or lack of progress, made by ethnic minorities in the key dimensions of socio-economic disadvantage. The four national surveys carried out by the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) and its predecessor, Political and Economic Planning (PEP). These are unique surveys in Britain, being purpose built, with large nationally representative samples, to study the circumstances of non-white minorities compared to the white majority across a wide range of socioeconomic dimensions. These surveys are taken from Indians, Caribbeans, African Asians, Chinese Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. The diversity at issue then suggests the promotion of economic racial equality requires, beyond anti-discrimination enforcement, not one set of policies but three different sets of policies need to focus on: develop a more plural approach to racial disadvantage, and to formulate an explicit ideal of multicultural citizenship appropriate to Britain in the next decade and beyond.
