Title:	The African Diaspora Population in Britain
Authors:	Peter J. Aspinall Martha J. Chinouya
Keywords:	African Diaspora
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	For a number of reasons it is timely to write a book on the Black African population in Britain. The 2011 Census revealed that the Black African population had grown to 1.0 million people, making it the largest Black ethnic group in the country and substantially larger than the Black Caribbean (0.6 million) and Other Black (0.3 million) ethnic groups. Moreover, with the release of nearly all tables from the 2011 Census, this has furnished the authors with a rich repository of data to provide a socio-demographic profi le of the Black African group that will remain a key source of evidence until the fi rst releases from the 2021 Census in mid-2023. Further, 2015 marks the beginning of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent and the African Union has declared the diaspora the sixth region of Africa. The African Union has also called for the diaspora to engage in Africa’s 10-year Science and Technology Programme endorsed in 2014. It is therefore appropriate to celebrate these events in this way. The main focus of this book is the population now generally known as ‘Black African’, with a few exceptions where a wider capture is justifi ed. This term has been used in the three decennial censuses of 1991, 2001, and 2011 and is now salient across central and local government and other statutory bodies. Members of this ethnic group have also coalesced around this term as a satisfactory self-descriptor. The term captures those with African ancestral origins who either self-identify or are identifi ed by others as Black African, but excluding those residents of Africa who are of European or South Asian ancestry and people of North African ancestry. It refers to people and their offspring with these African ancestral origins who migrated directly from sub-Saharan Africa (Agyemang et al ., 2005; Bhopal 2004). It thus excludes ‘Black Caribbeans’ (another census category, sometimes referred to as ‘African Caribbeans’ or ‘Afro-Caribbeans’) who are defi ned as people with African ancestral origins who migrated via the Caribbean.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54264
ISBN:	978-1-137-45654-0
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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