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6 J. Refugee Stud. 230 (1993)
Marching into the Middle Classes - The Long Term Resettlement of East African Asians in the UK

handle is hein.journals/jrefst6 and id is 242 raw text is: Journal of Refugee Studies Vol. 6. No. 3 1993 Marching into the Middle Classes? The Long-term Resettlement of East African Asians in the UK VAUGHAN ROBINSON Migration Unit, Department of Geography, University College of Swansea This paper uses a range of national quantitative data to assess the long-term resettlement of East African Asians in Britain. It argues that they have made considerable material progress in the UK despite the exclusionary barriers erected by racism. Various lessons are derived from their experience which might improve resettlement policy in general. In addition, the paper argues that decision-makers and researchers devote too little attention to longitudinal analysis and to the later stages of resettlement. Introduction It is now a commonplace, but still worth repeating, that one of the central difficulties of Refugee Studies is the episodic nature of the phenomenon which we study. Although the number of refugees and those in refugee-like circumstances has risen in the last decade to a figure of perhaps 40 million, this growth has not been through steady incremental addition, but rather through a series of regional and temporally proscribed incidents which have an immediate and often dramatic impact followed by an extended tail of consequences. The flight of South East Asians in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its associated conflicts would be one such episode which had an immediate impact but the consequences of which are also still reverberating eighteen years after the withdrawal of US troops. Equally the current Yugoslav crisis is having an immediate impact on flows of refugees into Germany, but its consequences will be felt throughout the European Community for many years to come. Despite the long-lasting nature and consequences of refugee flows, academics cannot divorce themselves from the needs of the societies of which they are a part. Such societies, and those who make decisions on their behalf, function on a need-to-know basis in which information and advice is only sought about a particular crisis when it intrudes onto the policy agenda. There is thus a clear issue-attention cycle (see Downs 1972) for such episodic events, such that @ Oxford University Press 1993

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