Webber, R;
(2004)
Neighbourhood segregation and social mobility among the descendants of Middlesbrough's 19th century Celtic immigrants.
(CASA Working Papers
88).
UCL (University College London), Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL): London, UK.
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Abstract
This paper is one of a series of research papers which form part of an ESRC funded research project on?The Quantitative Analysis of Family Names?. The purpose of this project is to assess the contribution thatinformation on the geographic distribution of family names can make to the study of historic migrationpatterns within local areas of Great Britain. The particular focus of this paper is Middlesbrough and EastCleveland, to which economic migrants were drawn in large numbers from Scotland, Ireland and Cornwallas well as from the North East of England during its rapid nineteenth century industrialisation.By examining the geographic distribution of different types of family name in the Middlesbrough area in2003 it is possible to infer that the descendants of Scottish migrants have been more upwardly mobile thandescendants of Irish migrants and that few descendants of Cornish migrants have moved out of the miningvillages in which they originally settled. Among the descendants of Scottish and Irish migrants there isclear evidence of social stratification between the descendants of those who originally migrated directly toMiddlesbrough and those who reached Middlesbrough indirectly and / or only in recent years. Bothcommunities have fared less successfully than those who moved to Middlesbrough from elsewhere in theNorth East of England whilst the most economically successful Middlesbrough residents appear to bedrawn predominantly from people with names traditionally found in regions of the country other than theNorth East.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Neighbourhood segregation and social mobility among the descendants of Middlesbrough's 19th century Celtic immigrants |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Additional information: | Imported via OAI, 7:29:01 5th Nov 2005 |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1289 |
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