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Amren has a 2006 book article about the tensions caused by mass immigration into the East End

Amren:

The book, The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict, takes the lid off a society deeply troubled by massive immigration over the past 30 years. It has lessons for us all as we move on from naïve multiculturalism to confront the real problems of our inner cities, especially the disaffection of some second-generation immigrants.

We hear constantly about the supposed benefits of immigration, but these accrue mainly to the middle classes who welcome the influx of cheap labour that provides them with domestic help and low-price restaurants.

Now this book brings home the heavy price for such complacency paid by the white working class, who are in the front line of the conflicts that develop and are largely ignored by the political and media classes. [Cont...]