ABSTRACT
In 1992, Vaughan Robinson argued that ‘our knowledge and understanding of ethnic migration is so slight that research is still needed on a broad front’; ‘we have not yet undertaken the simple descriptive studies which would allow us to quantify what mobility is occurring, let alone considered the processes which might have brought this about or the social and economic problems or advantages it might have produced’ (Robinson, 1992a, pp. 195–6). In this chapter, we review research on the residential mobility of ethnic minorities in the UK that has been undertaken in the last two decades and we demonstrate the ongoing, and, arguably, heightened, relevance of this field of study. Geographers have been at the forefront of this research, contributing to debates in Population and Social Geography, and within the interdisciplinary fields of Populations Studies, Housing Studies, and Ethnic and Migration Studies.
