Canterbury Christ Church University explores integrating communities through the arts
Date Created: 17th Apr 2018
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Dr Jonathan Barnes and Alex Ntung of Canterbury Christ Church University explore how activities such as dance, drama and art can help migrant children regain confidence and trust and lead to successful integration.
“The government’s Integrated Communities Strategy is the latest in a series of schemes designed to improve cohesion in UK communities.
Local authorities in Bradford, Blackburn, Peterborough, Walsall and Waltham Forest have been assigned extra help to address what Dame Louise Casey’s Review called ‘worrying levels of segregation and social exclusion’
The UK is indeed super diverse. 20% of the population now identify as belonging to an ethnic minority, 13% are foreign born. We are diverse in other ways too, around 25% of us have ‘no religion’, about 4% are Muslim and just over 1% Hindu; 2% of the population identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender.
Such diversity has huge potential for our creative and service-led economy, but we suggest that the social cohesion needed for growth arises from shared values.”
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