Date: 8:30-10:00am, Wednesday 11th November 2009
Location: Social Market Foundation, 11 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QB
Speakers: Dr Sandra Gruescu, Senior Research Fellow, SMF Rena Menne, Researcher, SMF
Chair: Ian Mulheirn, Director, SMF
Migration towards Britain has been rising over the last decade, and is set to rise further in the future. Whilst a free market approach would focus on migration to support labour market efficiency, a social market approach takes the social repercussions of a very mobile society into account and sees a role for the state to cushion negative effects. The latest SMF research project analyses under which circumstances people with different histories, nationalities and ethnicities get together and build networks amongst them, the role community organisations can play in this and what the state should do to support them.The research is based on interviews conducted with community leaders in London, Birmingham, Madrid and New York, from which insights into the emergence of ‘bridging social capital' are drawn. The findings from these interviews as well as the role of government in the promotion of bridging social capital will be discussed at this expert seminar.
For further information please contact the project manager Dr. Sandra Gruescu on sgruescu@smf.co.uk or 020 7227 4409.