Eric Kaufmann

• • Speaking at Conservative Party conference Policy Exchange event, 3 October, Birmingham
  • Speaking at Conservative Party conference Westminster Council event, 4 October, Birmingham
  • ‘Can narratives of national identity reduce support for Brexit and Trump?: a survey experiment’, Nuffield College, Oxford, 11 October

Recent

• • ‘Hard Brexit?: only if it’s free,’ LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 28 September
  • Spoke at ‘Integration and segregation after the Casey Review’, Labour Party conference event, 27 September, Liverpool
  • ‘Assimilation: why it needs to become part of the immigration debate,’ Fabian Society, 26 September
  • My blog post on the drivers of the Brexit vote at the Fabian Society and LSE British Politics finding that capital punishment, not economic position, explains Brexit voting was cited as an influence by Tim Stimpson, producer of the September 11, 2016 episode of BBC’s The Archers which decided Helen’s fate. The episode is here with a key passage from 15:00 to 15:33.
  • “The Tipping Point: Do whites flee neighbourhoods once minorities exceed 20% of the population?,” British Society for Population Studies conference, 15 September presentation
  • “The ‘Left Behind’? Reconciling individual and aggregate UK Independence Party voting”, at Elections, Public Opinion and Politics (ePop) conference, University of Kent, 9 September   presentation  paper
  • “Does Diversity Produce Hostility? A Meta Analysis, at Elections, Public Opinion and Politics”, (ePop) conference, University of Kent, 9 Sept paper   presentation
  • Addressed All-Parliamentary Group on Integration, 5 September audio
  • ‘The Diversity Wave: A Meta Analysis of ethnic diversity and native white backlash,’ in theme panel on “The Rise of the Radical Right in Europe after the Migrant Crisis and Paris,” American Political Science Association meetings, Philadelphia, Sept 1-4 presentation paper
  • “The ‘Left Behind’? Reconciling individual and aggregate UK Independence Party voting”, American Political Science Association meetings, Philadelphia, Sept 1-4 presentation paper
  • Anti-Immigrant Nativism as Sons of the Soil Conflict, American Political Science Association meetings, Philadelphia, Sept 1-4 presentation
  • with David Goodhart, ‘A  Respectable Englishness,’ Fabian Society, 16 August
  • Mention in William Davison, ‘Brexit’s Confounding Conservatism Leaves the UK Left Upset and Adrift’, The Wire, Aug 12
  • Mention in Simon Wren-Lewis, ‘A Divided Nation,’ Aug 8
  • Mention in ‘Causes of Brexit’ page, wikipedia
  • Mention in Alexander Jan, ‘The whole UK will suffer if London loses out in the Brexit aftermath’, City AM 25 July
  • Spoke at ‘Brexit: What now for the UK and EU?‘, Birkbeck Department of Politics, 21 July podcast
  • cited in ‘The link between Brexit and the death penalty,’ BBC News, 17 July
  • ‘What if minorities are willing to dance, yet the majority is not?’, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Integration blog, 11 July
  • ‘It’s NOT the economy, stupid’ LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 7 July
  • ‘It’s NOT the economy, stupid’ for event on Brexit at Policy Exchange, 4 July slides webcast
  • Spoke on Monocle Daily radio show on nationalism and national identity, 4 July link
  • On SKY News re Nigel Farage resignation, 4 July
  • ‘Green Identity, Nationalism and Climate Change,’ at BISR “The Challenge of Climate Change: What Can and Can’t Be Fixed?,” Birkbeck College, U. London, 28 June slides  event
  • Mention in Ben Chu, ‘Why did people really vote for Brexit? If we don’t face the psychological reasons, we’ll never bring Britain together,’ Independent, 26 June
  • Mention in Cassidy, John, ‘Why the Remain Campaign Lost the Brexit Vote,’ New Yorker, June 24
  • ‘Brexit Voters: NOT  the Left Behind,’ Fabian Society blog, 24 June Italian translation for lavoce.info
  • On SKY News debate on immigration and Brexit, 22 June, 1pm
  • ‘Majority Nationalism: from inclusion to exclusion’, keynote address at University of Nottingham conference on Majoritarian Nationalism and the rights of non-dominant groups, 15 June 2016 slides
  • ‘Differences in Commonality’ at Social Integration: what is it? How do we promote it?, The-Challenge-Network event, UCL, 9 June video
  • On BBC TV News London, 24 May 2016 (from 6:46 pm)
  • Cited in ‘Integration Nation,’ The Economist, 21 May 2016
  • Keynote address at LSE Government Department retreat on theme of Integration, Cumberland Lodge, 29 April 2016 slides
  • ‘Cracking Up: Immigration and the Polarization of Nations’, keynote speech at 26th ASEN conference on “Nationalism, Migration and Population Change”, London School of Economics, 20 April slides
  • From Multiculturalism to Multivocalism: complexity, national identity and political theory, Identities (in section on Building inclusive nations in the age of migration), April 2016 prepublication version official
  • ‘The Political Background to the Migrant Crisis,’ in Migrants and Languages conference, Birkbeck College, U. London, 22 March slides
  • review of Goldstone, Kaufmann and Toft, Political Demography, Comparative Sociology, 45, 2, 2016
  • ‘Nudging Integration’, Policy Exchange/Tower Hamlets Council, 1 March slides
  • Presented at ESRC project findings at Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI) Showcase Event, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, 29 Feb
  • In Late@BBK Debate: London’s Future – Politics, People and Identity – Cinema, 25 February, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • David Willetts in Conversation with Tony Wright, Birkbeck Politics blog, 23 February 2016 podcast
  • ‘Why majority cultural preferences should shape, but not determine, immigration policy’, Verfassungsblog, 18 February 2016
  • Submission to Casey Review on Integration and Extremism, 22 January 2016
  • Mention in Goodhart David, “When it comes to integrating immigrants, friendship is the key,” Telegraph, 24 Jan 2016
  • ‘Ethnic Change in the West: White Responses,’ Be Birkbeck lecture, 25 January 630 pm
  • Participated in Casey Review of Integration roundtable, Home Office, 21 January
  • ‘Class, Englishness and the UKIP Vote’, for “English Issues’ in the 2015 General Election” conference, Centre for English Identity and Politics, University of Winchester, 18 January presentation
  • Review of White Backlash: Immigration, Race and American Politics, in Literary Review, Christmas edition unedited preprint [official version]
  • ‘Changes Alarm, Time Disarms: Ethnic Context and the Political Demography of Anti-Immigration,’ at ‘Europe’s migration crisis and the Populist Response’ event, 23 November, Wolfson Suite, London, University of London slides podcast audio details
  • ‘The White British response to immigration,’ at event on ‘Immigration and Asylum policies in Britain’, London School of Economics, 5 November presentation podcast
  • ‘Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Britain,’ presentation to Dutch parliamentarians, Netherlands Embassy, London, 19 Oct slides
  • Our project featured as an impact case in ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative magazine, 25 September
  • ‘From multiculturalism to multivocalism,’ at Building Inclusive Nations in the Age of Migration symposium, University of Loughborough, 24 September presentation
  • Quoted in Doug Todd, ‘Tears are not enough: migrant crisis calls for reality check’, Vancouver Sun, Sept 19, 2015
  • Quoted in Reihan Salam, ‘White Fright: Does Donald Trump represent the ascendancy of white nationalism on the American right?‘, Slate, Septmeber 4, 2016
  • ‘Contact Not White Flight': contextual diversity and the UKIP vote in Britain,’ part of Theme Panel: “The Rise of the Populist Right?: Anti-Immigration Parties in Western Europe,” American Political Science Association conference, San Francisco, Sept 3-6 paper presentation
  • On Sky News 24 about migrant crisis, 1030 am, 16 Sept 2015
  • ‘Shifting Demographics’, ESRC Society Now, Summer 2015 issue, p. 13
  • On Sky News 24 about Hungarian border fence and migrant crisis, 1040 am, 27 Aug 2015
  • Quoted in Sarah Glazer, ‘European Migrant Crisis: should the EU Open its Doors Wider?,’ Congressional Quarterly, 31 July
  • On Sky News 24 about Calais Migrant crisis, 930 am, 31 July 2015
  • ‘Taxpayers and kippers: why the polls got it wrong’, at University of Kent Election Blues: Why Labour Lost event, House of Lords, 25 June slides
  • Cited in Nick Hellen, ‘Schools in Wider Racial Split than St. Louis,’ Sunday Times, 5 July 2015
  • BISR Political and Social Theory Seminar: “Complexity, Nationalism and Political Theory”, Birkbeck College, University of London, 10 June slide
  • Spoke at launch of Demos Integration Hub, 20 May slides
  • ‘Reflections on UKIP and the 2015 Election,’ Political Quarterly, 18 May
  • ‘White Flight’ or Positive Contact?: local diversity and attitudes to immigration in Britain, Comparative Political Studies, published May 15 on firstview
  • Interviewed on UKIP on BBC London 94.9 Vanessa Feltz show
  • The ‘shy’ English nationalists who won it for the Tories and flummoxed the pollsters, LSE British Politics blog, 12 May
  • Interviewed about UK election on Global TV (Canada), 6 May clip
  • ‘Why winning back Ukippers won’t necessarily save Tories’, New Statesman May2015 blog, 6 May 2015
  • ‘UKIP’s Effect on this Election’, Birkbeck College ‘Who Will Win?’ event, 30 April slides podcast slides
  • Interview on BBC Persian service on the election and multiculturalism, 27 April clip (from 4:20)
  • Keynote speech, ‘Nationalism and Complexity’ at Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism conference, LSE, 21-23 April slides
  • Talk on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Religious Conflict, IAPSS World Congress 2015, London, 16 April slides
  • Chaired launch of Paul Morland, Demographic Strategies in Ethnic Conflict, 26 March, 6pm, Birkbeck College, U. London podcast
  • Respondent to speech by Lisa Nandy, MP speech on ‘Patriotism and the Left’, Class (Centre for Labour and Social Studies), 25 March
  • Interviewed on ITV television documentary ‘Things We Don’t Say About Race That Are True ,’ hosted by Trevor Phillips, 19 March 2015
  • Interview on ITV on politics of immigration, 19 March 2015
  • Interviewed as ‘We Asked an Expert What Would Happen If Nigel Farage Quit As UKIP Leader,’ Vice.com, 17 March
  • On BBC Radio 3 Freethinking programme on Social Identity in a time of transformation with Philip Dodd, 25 Feb podcast
  • Cited in Doug Todd, ‘How immigration issue will help Labour win the May British election. What will it do in Canada?‘ Vancouver Sun, Feb. 25
  • ‘The Myth of London Exceptionalism': London not as invulnerable to UKIP as commonly reported‘, Demos Quarterly, Issue #5, 2014-15
  • ‘White Flight’ in the West?: explaining the persistence of white-minority segregation, Alpine Population Conference, La Thuile, Italy, 25-28 January 2015 slides
  • ‘Ukippers are likely to have voted Tory in 2010 – but Labour in the 1990s,’ New Statesman May 2015 blog
  • ‘Ethnic Dynamics in England,’ City Forum Creating police leaders for the 21st century, Reform Club, London, 27 November slides
  • ‘Rochester and UKIP: We shouldn’t leap to the conclusion that this by-election is a bellwether for 2015,’ LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 21 November 2014
  • ‘ Religious rebirth in Europe’s cities: Global demographics and the rise of ethno-religion,’ WIREL conference, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Human Capital, Vienna, 21 November
  • ‘The White British Response to Ethnic Change: UKIP, White Flight or Integration?’ , Social Market Foundation’ Chalk & Talk, London, 20 November slides
  • “Dear Ukipper…” The letter the Prime Minister should write on immigration’, New Statesman, 19 November (2015 blog) (Staggers blog)
  • “Immigration and Integration in Britain: The Great Nationalism Debate,” Review essay of Tariq Modood, Multiculturalism, David Goodhart, The British Dream, and Ted Cantle, Interculturalism, Nationalities Papers, 42:6, pp. 1072-1077 download preprint
  • ‘White Flight and the rise of UKIP’, Understanding Society podcast, 27 October 2014
  • ‘Demystifying White Flight’, Understanding Society Insights 2014 , pp. 26-7
  • ‘It’s the demography stupid: ethnic change and opposition to immigration’, Political Quarterly special issue on the Politics of Immigration
  • ‘Introduction: The Politics of Immigration: UKIP and Beyond’, Political Quarterly special issue on the Politics of Immigration
  • ‘Demystifying ‘White Flight’, Understanding Society Insights 2014, 30 Oct, pp. 29-30
  • My blog, ‘The lessons of Clacton and Heywood: Why UKIP will damage the Tories in 2015 but may ultimately harm Labour’, British Politics LSE blog, Huffington Post and Birkbeck blog, 10 October
  • Presentation at Demos (Mapping Integration meeting), 6 October slides
  • ‘Changing Places: The white British Response to Ethnic Change’, Demos final report,  launched 29 September 2014 at Tory Party Conference, 11 am download report free here

Media Coverage

• Quoted in Doug Todd, ‘Tears are not enough: migrant crisis calls for reality check’, Vancouver Sun, Sept 19, 2015
• On Sky News 24 about migrant crisis, 1030 am, 16 Sept 2015
• ‘Shifting Demographics’, ESRC Society Now, Summer 2015 issue, p. 13
• On Sky News 24 about Hungarian border fence and migrant crisis, 1040 am, 27 Aug 2015
• Quoted in Sarah Glazer, ‘European Migrant Crisis: should the EU Open its Doors Wider?,’ Congressional Quarterly, 31 July
• On Sky News 24 about Calais Migrant crisis, 930 am, 31 July 2015
• Interviewed about UK election on Global TV (Canada), 6 May clip
• Interviewed on ITV television documentary ‘Things We Don’t Say About Race That Are True ,’ hosted by Trevor Phillips, 19 March 2015
• Interview on ITV on politics of immigration, 19 March 2015
• On BBC Radio 3 Freethinking programme on Social Identity in a time of transformation with Philip Dodd, 25 Feb podcast
• Cited in Doug Todd, ‘How immigration issue will help Labour win the May British election. What will it do in Canada?‘ Vancouver Sun, Feb. 25
• Interviewed on BBC London radio 94.9 Drivetime on European immigration to London, 16 Feb 2015
• Discussing decline of the Far Right in Britain on Islam Channel, 15 January 2015 (from 3:29)
• On BBC 94.9 London radio Breakfast Show with Penny Smith & Paul Ross, 12 December (from 1:14:00)
• On LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, discussing Conservatives’ overshoot of immigration cap, 27 November
• Mention of our research in Harcharan Chandhoke, ‘These are not good times to be an immigrant in Britain’, News Statesman, 30 Oct
• On LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, discussing foreign offenders, 22 October
• On LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, discussing Cameron EU reform proposal on immigration, 16 October
• On LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, discussing UKIP and immigration, 13 October
• On Sky News re Clacton and Heywood by-elections, 430 pm, 10 October
• Mention in ‘How will ‘super diversity’ affect the future of British politics?,’ Guardian, 8 October
• Despite a degree of accommodation to change, white British citizens remain largely opposed to increased ethnic diversity,’ Democratic Audit, 6 October
• ‘Tabloid readers, nationalists and the distrusting are most likely to be anti-immigration’, coverage of report in New Statesman, 2 October
• ‘Distant Concerns’, Progress Online, 4 September 2014
• ‘Go West?’, part of ‘Immigration: A Balanced Agenda’ series, Bright Blue, 30 August 2014
• Research mentioned in ‘The typical ukip voter has little experience of immigration,’ Independent on Sunday, 10 August
• Interviewed on Nick Ferrari, LBC morning radio show, 27 June (link: around 7:20 am)
• Interview with O Globo newspaper (Brazil)
• ‘The typical ukip voter has little experience of immigration,’ Independent on Sunday, 10 August
• ‘Ukip does reflect voters’ concerns,’ Evening Standard, 28 April
• ‘White Londoners, seaside and countryside,’ Guardian, 23 January
• TV interview on white flight in England in ‘Going Underground’ programme, Russia Today, 2 January 2014 (from 00:57)
• ‘Decoupling Immigration and Race in Britain,’ Aljazeera, 24 January 2014
• ‘London’s population: boom, change and churn’, Londoncitybreaks.org.uk, 23 December
• ‘What’s the truth behind white flight?’, Guardian, 1 December
• BBC Asian Network Reports coverage of our White Flight research, (from 4:47-8:30)
• ‘Comfortably segregated: UK creeping towards ‘color-coded society’ ‘, Russia Today, 26 November
• ‘When it comes to diversity, most of us vote with our feet,’ Spectator, 26 November
• ‘UK ‘becoming colour-coded society’ because races don’t mix, says ex-equality chief‘, Mail Online, 25 Nov
• ‘Britain heading towards a ‘colour-coded society’, says Demos’, Telegraph, 25 Nov
• Demos press release for ‘White Flight?’ research, 25 November 2013
• ‘Polite white flight as culture divides us,’ Sunday Times, 24 November
• Coverage of our nonwhite PM finding on BBC Asian Network, 6 November [from 14:40]
• ‘34% of electorate uncomfortable with ethnic minority PM,’ YouGov News [our poll data here]
• ‘One in three Britons uncomfortable with prospect of non-white Prime Minister,’ Independent, 3 October
• ‘One in three Britons ‘uncomfortable’ with prospect of ethnic minority PM,’ Guardian, 3 October
• ‘Race Poll: Nearly Half of Ukip Members Against Idea of Non-white PM,’ Hope not Hate, 3 October
• ‘Unease over prospect of non-white PM at No 10,’ Yorkshire Post, 3 October
• ‘Property Agent Says Londoners Fleeing Foreign Influx,’ Voice, 27 June
• Mention of research in Jonathan Portes v David Goodhart, ‘An Exercise in Scapegoating,’ London Review of Books, 20 June
• Eric Randolph, ‘Racial factors are not causing white flight’, Times of India, 26 May
• ‘Everyone Out: whites are fleeing Britain’s inner cities. But so is everyone else,’ Economist, 11 May
• ‘Jump In Minorities Becoming Majority Across Country,’ Voice, 7 May
• ‘How rise of ‘white flight’ is creating a segregated UK: Study reveals white Britons are ‘retreating’ from areas dominated by ethnic minorities,’ Liveleak, 6 May
• ‘White Britons abandon ethnic minority areas,’ Express, 6 May
• ‘Warning bells ring as white Britons ‘retreat’,’ Yorkshire Post, 6 May
• ‘White Britons ‘in retreat’ from racially mixed areas, reveals study by think-tank Demos,’ Independent, 6 May
• ‘Demos: White Britons ‘in retreat’ from ethnic minority areas,’ Metro, 6 May
• ‘Ethnic majority’ areas growing, says report,’ Telegraph, 6 May
• ‘How rise of ‘white flight’ is creating a segregated UK: Study reveals white Britons are ‘retreating’ from areas dominated by ethnic minorities,’ Daily Mail, 6 May
• ‘White Britons Culturally Segregated Due To Retreat From Minority Areas,’ Huffington Post, 6 May
• Eric Kaufmann, ‘Many Different Englands,’ Prospect, April 29, 2013
• Coverage of our ESRC-Demos workshop in ‘Poverty tsar Frank Field: white, working class need own citizenship ceremonies,’ Independent, 4 April 2013
• Eric Kaufmann Interviewed as part of CNN feature on segregation and Islamist patrols in London, 1 Feb 2013
• ‘White Flight': the emerging story, Understanding Society
• Mention in Nick Hellen, ‘Britons ‘self-segregate’ as white flight soars,’ Sunday Times, 27 January 2013
• Mention in Emma Reynolds, ‘Rise of ‘white flight': British families are ‘self-segregating’ as more Caucasians abandon urban areas for the countryside,’ Daily Mail, 27 January 2013
• Eric Kaufmann, ‘London and the English”, Huffington Post (and Demos Blog), 15 January 2013
• Mention in David Goodhart, ‘London’s “White Flight” Deserves Attention,’ Financial Times, December 26, 2012
• Eric Kaufmann, ‘White Flight from London?’, Huffington Post, (and Prospect Magazine Blog, Demos Blog, LSE Politics Blog), 12 December 2012
• Eric Kaufmann, ‘London: an Island of Religion in a Secular Sea,’ Huffington Post (and Demos Blog), 21 December 2012

Working Papers

• 
  Kaufmann, E. and G. Harris, ‘White Flight’ or Positive Contact?: Local Diversity and Attitudes to Immigration in Britain, 2009-11‘
• Kaufmann, E. and G. Harris, ‘White flight’?: Opposition to Diversity and Mobility Decisions in Britain, 1991-2012′

Previous Presentations and Articles

Project Charts and Graphs

Project-Sponsored Events

• 1. Chatham House Evening Event on White Nationalism and White Flight: Transatlantic Perspectives. June 13, 6pm

Ritula Shah, BBC Radio 4 ‘The World Tonight’ presenter, introduction.

Eric Kaufmann, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK: ‘White Flight and White Nationalism in England: is there a connection?’

John Logan, Department of Sociology, Brown University, USA: ‘White Mobility Patterns in the metropolitan US’

Marcel Lubbers, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands: ‘Anti-immigration and the Radical Right in Geographic Context’

• 3. ESRC-Demos-Birkbeck Roundtable: ‘Responses to Diversity: Immigration and the White Working-Class in Britain,‘ in collaboration with The Birkbeck Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life and Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, 3 April 2013

Roundtable Programme and Prospectus

Papers from the Roundtable:

‘Decreasing segregation and increasing integration in England and Wales: what evidence of ‘White flight’?’, Dr. Gemma Catney, University of Liverpool, School of Environmental Sciences slides for presentation

‘White Flight and White Nationalism in England: is there a connection?,’ Professor Eric Kaufmann, Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of Politics  slides for presentation

‘The Far Right, Class and Opposition to Immigration,’ Dr. Gareth Harris, Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of Politics  slides for presentation

‘What does history have to say about the ‘white working class’?’, Dr. Rebecca Taylor, Department of History and Classics, Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of Politics

Links

Demos: ‘Patriotism and Pride’ Project (Max Wind-Cowie); Violence and Extremism Project (Jamie Bartlett)

Dr. Matthew Goodwin’s Page (following the radical right in Britain, North America and Europe)

Ethnicity.ac.uk – facts and figures about ethnic difference and inequality in the UK (out of CCSR, U. Manchester)

University of Manchester, Cathie Marsh Centre, Population, Ethnicity, Migration (PERM) Group also Minority Internal Migration in Europe Conference (PERM)

Extremis Project – news and views on the radical right

Oxford Diversity Project

U.S. Urban Research Ethnic Change Maps, 2000-2010

Brown University US 2010 Site segregation page

John Iceland’s Penn State Changing American Neighborhoods and Communities Site

ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy