MIGRANT LIVELIHOODS Transaction Economies in Birmingham and Leicester Suzanne Hall, LSE Cities TLANG Network Assembly, Birmingham, May 2016 Manchester Leicester Birmingham Bristol Concentration and dispersal across by birth outside UK (ONS, 2011) (2011 ONS Metropolitan % Born Ethnic Census) Boroughs outside UK minority pop. London 8,416,535 41.6% 40.48% Birmingham 1,074,300 22.9% 36.74% Manchester 502,900 26.7% 30.07% (2,682,500) Bristol 442,500 14.7% 22.1% Leicester 333,800 33.6% 49.4% (Multiple Sources) Rookery Road to World, by Place of Origin (Super-diverse Streets 2015, Julia King) Narborough Road to World, by Place of Origin (Super-diverse Streets 2015, Julia King) Survey Summary (Super-diverse Streets 2015, Julia King) Rookery Road, Birmingham Rookery Road to World, by Place of Origin (Super-diverse Streets 2015, Julia King) Migrant Sedimentation Rana: My parents came to Birmingham from the Punjab in the 1960s. They were invited by the British Government. (Fieldwork Interview 2015) (Image: Billy Dosanjh, Black Country Echoes, http://www.blackcountryechoes.org.uk/) Gurdwara, Rookery Road (Image: https://plus.google.com/+GurdwaraBebeNanakiji/posts) (Image: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gurdwarasturnedfood-banks-sikh-temples- are-catering-for-rise-in-britains-hungry-8991824.html) Aasin: Since 2010, the funding is no longer there. ….programmes, which were free, have been outsourced to training and certifying agencies ... (Fieldwork interview, 2015). Rookery Road, Birmingham Narborough Road, Leicester Migrant Churn Jack: What’s really significant here is the churn – it’s a very, very transient population. (Fieldwork Interview 2015) (Image: https://www.google.co.uk/maps 2015) Narborough Road : Unit types and duration on street. Narborough Road : Diverse Units (Super-diverse Streets 2015, Julia King) Narborough Road : Diverse Units (Super-diverse Streets 2015, Julia King) Survey Summary (Super-diverse Streets 2015, Robin Finlay) SUPER-DIVERSE STREETS i) Migrant economies on the street combine multiple geographies and time frames of migration. ii) Civic resources incorporate a wide spectrum of memberships, including the cosmopolitan and local. Transactions range from proft making, to acts of care and counsel. iii) Streets in marginalised localities provide a partial promise to the newcomer, a space to obtain a foothold in the city. Footholds emerge through an incremental or bit-by-bit reconstruction of the urban, a space of precarity and creativity thank you .