Butler, T. and C. Hamnett (2011). Ethnicity, class and aspiration: understanding London's new East End. Bristol, Policy Press.
This book examines the dramatic social changes that have taken place in East London over the last 30 years, including deindustrialisation, the subsequent growth of both upper and middle classes, and an increase in international immigration in the area. The book focuses in particular on how these changes have influenced the social, residential and educational aspirations of minority ethnic populations. The aim of the study was to locate the case study in a wider context of education, aspiration, and the changing ethnic and class structure in most major British cities. The research findings were the result of detailed survey and in-depth interview work in East London, with a focus on five areas in East London to capture a mixture of class and ethnic backgrounds, differences in educational provision, and a range of different places that had been undergoing social class and ethnic change: Victoria Park, East Ham, Leyton, Central Redbridge and Barkingside. The selection of the different areas was based on secondary analysis of census and other data.