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71-595: Asian = 0.8% Black =0.3% Multiracial =0.7% Other groups=0.3% Arab =0.1% The Borough of Copeland was a local government district with borough status in western Cumbria , England . Its council was based in Whitehaven . It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Whitehaven , Ennerdale Rural District and Millom Rural District . The population of the Non-Metropolitan district

142-589: A broad "Asian/Asian British" ("Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British" in Scotland) heading in all parts of the UK. Shown in order, as listed on the 2011 Census form, the five categories of Asian British are: There are several regional subgroupings of Asian British people, and Asians living in the United Kingdom generally. As approximately defined concepts, sometimes due to varying geographical regionalisation of

213-666: A language isolate. The traditions of different ethnic groups in South Asia have diverged, influenced by external cultures, especially in the northwestern parts of South Asia and also in the border regions and busy ports, where there are greater levels of contact with external cultures. There is also a lot of genetic diversity within the region. For example, most of the ethnic groups of the northeastern parts of South Asia are genetically related to peoples of East or Southeast Asia . There are also genetically isolated groups who have not been genetically influenced by other groups, such as

284-582: A million Asian British people derive their ancestry between East Asia , Southeast Asia , Central Asia , and West Asia . Since the 2001 census , British people of general Asian descent have been included in the "Asian/Asian British" grouping ("Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British" grouping in Scotland) of the UK census questionnaires. Categories for British Indians , British Pakistanis , British Bangladeshis , British Chinese , British Hongkongers and other Asians have existed under an Asian British heading since

355-540: A number of Asian characters portrayed by British actors of Asian heritage. Tsai Chin , the first Asian British actress to play a Bond girl , appeared in 1967's You Only Live Twice and the 2006 re-make of Casino Royale . Burt Kwouk , who appeared in over fifty films, including three of the James Bond film series , received an OBE for services to drama in 2010. Art Malik had notable roles in The Jewel in

426-564: A separate heading. In Scotland, all of these tick-boxes were grouped together under an "Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British" heading, and in Northern Ireland no broad headings were used, just tick-boxes for each of the Asian groups. The 2011 census questionnaire was more consistent with regard to the grouping of Asian ethnicities, such that Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese and any other Asian background options appeared under

497-452: A significant and growing minority of the people living in the United Kingdom, with a population of 5.76 million people or 8.6% of the population identifying as Asian or Asian British in the 2021 United Kingdom census . This represented an increase from a 6.9% share of the UK population in 2011, and a 4.4% share in 2001. Represented predominantly by South Asian ethnic groups , census data regarding birthplace and ethnicity demonstrate around

568-509: A sizeable number of Gujarati Muslims speak Urdu for religious and cultural reasons. Bangladeshis mainly speak Sylheti Bengali and other dialects of Bengali. People from Sri Lanka speak Tamil and Sinhala . Speakers of different dialects mainly refer to their dialects as the main language, for example Sylheti Bengali speakers refer to the Sylheti dialect as just "Bengali" and Mirpuri speakers sometimes say they speak Punjabi. The reason for this

639-425: A total Asian British population of 4,373,339 (6.9 per cent of the total population), excluding people of mixed ethnicity. The 2011 population represented a 1,794,513 increase on the 2001 United Kingdom census figures. All five of the subcategories (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, and Other Asian) rose in their own right, representing both outright population growth, as well as increased demographic share of

710-706: Is a long history of migration to the United Kingdom (and its predecessor states) from across Asia . British colonies and protectorates throughout Asia brought lascars (sailors and militiamen) to port cities in Britain. Immigration of small numbers of South Asians to England began with the arrival of the East India Company to the Indian subcontinent , and the decline of the Mughal Empire , at

781-507: Is that for any given ethnic community, their region-specific dialect is the normative form of the language used. Asian Britons have significant numbers of adherents to various major religions. Based on 2011 census figures for England and Wales (94.7 percent of UK statistics), Muslims account for 43% of the group, while Hindus make up over 18%, and Christians almost 11%. Sikhs constitute nearly 9% of British Asians, and 3.5% are Buddhists. British Chinese are mainly irreligious , with 55% of

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852-692: Is unclear. If the Romany are included, then the earliest arrivals were in the Middle Ages . DNA surveys have linked Romanies to present-day South Asian populations and the Romani language is a member of the Indo-Aryan language family . Romanies are believed to have begun travelling westward around 1000 CE, and have mixed with Middle Eastern and European populations over many centuries. Romani began arriving in sizeable numbers in parts of Western Europe in

923-700: The 2011 United Kingdom census . Census results show that Asian Britons with descent from across all of Asia are represented in the UK. For example, births in the Philippines and Thailand in Southeast Asia , or Iran and Iraq in West Asia , are among the highest in the Other Asian subcategory of "Asian / Asian British". Outside of the census, organisation and bodies have made explicit use of such geographic classifications. These have included

994-543: The 2011 census , the two categories Chinese and Other Asian were listed explicitly under the broad heading and within the grouping of "Asian/Asian British". According to the 2021 United Kingdom census , those identifying as Asian British in England and Wales enumerated 5,515,420, or 9.3% of the population In Northern Ireland, 30,667, or 1.6% of the population, identified as Asian or British Asian. The census in Scotland

1065-780: The Ahmadiyya Community), Sheikh Abdul Qayum (one of the best known scholars in Europe and Chief Imam of East London Mosque ), Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq (Khateeb of Birmingham Central Mosque ), Dr. Mahmudul Hasan (Khateeb of Essex Mosque), Abdur Rahman Madani (Chairman of Global Eid Trust and Chief Imam of Darul Ummah Mosque), Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi (principal of Hijaz College ), Ajmal Masroor (Imam and Liberal Democrats politician) and Pramukh Swami Maharaj (fifth spiritual successor of Hindu Swaminarayan ). The earliest date at which South Asians settled in Great Britain

1136-634: The Asian continent , the subgroups are often utilized in broad ethnic or cultural classification. Despite wider use, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) does not provide geographic distinctions within the census, meaning all people born in Asia (regardless of region), or with Asian ancestry, are provided designation as "Asian / Asian British". The ONS did, however, acknowledge East, South, Southeast and West Asian individuals in its final recommendations report for

1207-635: The British Heart Foundation , the Greater London Authority , and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office . In alphabetical order, some of these subgroups are: Terms to describe British people with Asian heritage are varied and are subject to gradual change created by study in academia, reporting in journalistic works, coverage in other media forms, as well as concepts of self-identity and personhood. Some of

1278-878: The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. The Andamanese (Sentinel, Onge, Jarawa, and Great Andamanese) live in some of the Andaman Islands and speak a language isolate , as do the Kusunda in central Nepal, the Vedda in Sri Lanka, and the Nihali of Central India, who number about 5,000 people. The people of the Hunza Valley in Pakistan are another distinct population; they speak Burushaski ,

1349-639: The Commonwealth ). Immigrants from former Caribbean colonies (including Indo-Caribbeans ) were also moving to Britain. Although this immigration was continuous, several distinct phases can be identified: Bengali social reformer and founder of the All-India Seamen's Federation, Aftab Ali 's work is recognised to have helped thousands of Asian lascars to migrate, settle and find employment in Britain . He organised rallies and meetings with

1420-739: The East London Mosque , London Central Mosque , Birmingham Central Mosque , Baitul Futuh Mosque , BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London , Bradford Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple , Shikharbandi Jain Derasar in Potters Bar , Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Southall and Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend . The publication of Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses in 1988 caused major controversy . Muslims condemned

1491-788: The Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands . The largest ethnolinguistic group in South Asia are the Indo-Aryans, numbering around 1 billion, and the largest subgroup are the native speakers of Hindi languages , numbering more than 470 million. These groups are based solely on a linguistic basis and not on a genetic basis. Many South Asian ethnic groups and nationalities have substantial diasporas. See also Bangladeshi diaspora , Indian diaspora , Nepalese diaspora , Pakistani diaspora , Afghan diaspora , and . Two (or possibly three) other people groups have ethnic and linguistic ties with

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1562-513: The Mandarin , Cantonese , Min , and Hakka languages. The language spoken by Indians are Punjabi , Gujarati , Kutchi , Hindustani ( Hindi – Urdu ), Bengali , Tamil , Telugu and Malayalam . People from Pakistan speak Urdu , Punjabi , Mirpuri , Hindko (dialects of Punjabi), Sindhi , Kashmiri , Pashto and Saraiki . Gujaratis who emigrated from India and East Africa speak Gujarati , Hindi , and Kutchi (a dialect of Sindhi), while

1633-746: The Mirpur District in Azad Kashmir . The second largest ethnic group of British Pakistanis are the Punjabi people, largely from Attock District of Punjab followed by Pashtuns and other ethnic groups from the districts of Nowshera , Peshawar and Ghazi in province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . In the London Borough of Waltham Forest there are substantial numbers of Pakistani people originating from Jhelum , Punjab. Studies have shown 95 per cent of British Bangladeshis originate from

1704-943: The Prince of Sylhet . The man was waited upon by the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger , and then dined with the Duke of York before presenting himself in front of the King. When the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrived in Calicut, India in 1498, he established the first European-Asian sea route (commonly called the Cape Route), opening up direct maritime passage between South Asia and Europe. An extension of this route, devised by

1775-470: The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site and elsewhere in the borough, leading to Copeland being described as 'a community of two-halves'. Elections to the borough council were held every four years, with 51 councillors being elected at each election. From the first election in 1973 the council had been under Labour control, apart from between 1976 and 1979 when it was under no overall control . At

1846-532: The Sylhet Division , located in the Northeastern part of Bangladesh. British Chinese people originate primarily from former British colonies, such as Hong Kong , but also from areas of Southeast Asia , where they were already diasporic populations. There have been three waves of migration of Hindus in the United Kingdom. The first wave was before India's independence in 1947. In the early 1950s

1917-453: The "Asian / Asian British: Other" group by birthplace: ONS = Office for National Statistics, coding index. The unemployment rate among Indian men was only slightly higher than that for White British or White Irish men, 7 per cent compared with 5 per cent for the other two groups. On the other hand, Pakistanis have higher unemployment rates of 13–14%, and Bangladeshis have one of the highest rates, around 23%. Some surveys also revealed

1988-407: The 16th century. The Romani who settled in Britain are sometimes known as Romanichal , but there are several subgroups within the Romani population of the United Kingdom today. The first educated South Asian to travel to Europe and live in Britain was I'tisam-ud-Din , a Bengali Muslim cleric, munshi and diplomat to the Mughal Empire who arrived in 1765 with his servant Muhammad Muqim during

2059-536: The 2011 census. In British English usage, especially in less formal contexts, the term "Asian" usually refers to people who trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent or South Asia , contrary to other Anglosphere countries such as Australia and the United States , where the term "Asian" usually refers to people who trace their ancestry to the Far East ( East , North and Southeast Asia ). There

2130-730: The Asian lascars, Austronesian Malay people , from Southeast Asia, formed a significant part of the lascar population settling in, and sailing to and from Britain. From East Asia, Japanese and Chinese seamen were often operating as lascars for British ships and trading companies. From South Asia, Indians made up a huge proportion of these sea crews, particularly in the East India Company 's earliest decades of operation. Parsees (who originate from Persia , West Asia) and Luso-Asians of mixed Portuguese and Indian heritage, also came from South Asia to work as lascars. From West Asia, Armenians formed part of diverse lascar crews, and Yemenis increasingly served as lascar sailors and militiamen after

2201-547: The Conservative Health Minister, Enoch Powell recruited a large number of doctors from the Indian subcontinent . The second wave occurred in the 1970s mainly from East Africa . The later communities included those from Guyana , Trinidad and Tobago , Mauritius and Fiji . The last wave of migration began in the 1990s and included Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and professionals including doctors and software engineers from India. Chinese Britons speak

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2272-703: The Crown and The Living Daylights , and Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and well-known performers. Kingsley is one of few actors to have won all four major motion picture acting awards, receiving Oscar , BAFTA , Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards throughout his career, including the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Gandhi (1982). South Asian ethnic groups Ethnic groups in South Asia are ethnolinguistic groupings within

2343-711: The Dutch explorer Hendrik Brouwer in 1611 and known as the Brouwer Route , subsequently found a new waterway to Southeast Asia. In the following centuries, the United Kingdom , and its predecessor states, utilised these sea routes to form the British Empire . Capitilising on their growing naval dominance among the other European powers, the British colonised the coastal areas in the West, South, Southeast and East of

2414-595: The Forest bought from the estate of St Bees Priory . In July 2021 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced that in April 2023, Cumbria would be reorganised into two unitary authorities . On 1 April 2023, Copeland Borough Council was abolished and its functions were transferred to the new unitary authority Cumberland , which also covers the former districts of Allerdale and Carlisle . In 2014

2485-466: The Government of the United Kingdom to use the term Asian Briton. Research project Minorities at Risk described this as an effort "to link ethnic groups to their heritage, and to make greater recognition of the sacrifices made by members of ethnic groups during World War II ". British Asian is a widely used term to describe British persons of Asian descent with either citizenship or residency in

2556-457: The Indian unemployment rate to be 6–7% Persons of Indian or mixed Indian origin are more likely than White British to have university degrees, whereas Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are less likely. With the exception of Bangladeshi women, every other group of South Asians, have higher attendance at university than the national average. GCSE pass rates have been rising for all South Asians. In

2627-460: The ONS designated the "Main countries of birth of Other Asian group" (the 10 places of birth with highest recorded figures), which, in descending order of population, were: United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Iran, India, Iraq, Mauritius, Pakistan, Kenya, Nepal and Yemen. As updated a decade later by the Office for National Statistics , the 2011 United Kingdom census recorded the following population figures for

2698-615: The Philippines are the largest foreign-national groups of National Health Service workers. South Asian ethnic groups mostly originate from a few select places in South Asia, these are known as place of origins. East Asian ethnic groups are particularly represented by the Han Chinese in the United Kingdom. British Indians tend to originate mainly from the two Indian States, Punjab and Gujarat . Evidence from Bradford and Birmingham have shown, Pakistanis originate largely from

2769-617: The Trust in 2020, The Guardian questioned the merit of whether the American singer was a person "who inhabits the values of the British Asian community", reporting that Perry was "neither British nor Asian". The term has also received some criticism. BBC Asian Network commissioned an opinion poll that found that the majority of Asians in the UK disliked the term due to its inferred generalisation. Academic Roxy harris has critiqued

2840-722: The UK South Asian population has higher rates of unemployment compared to the White-British population, and number of 16 to 64 year old's who were employed, by ethnicity showed Indians overall had the same ratio in employment as White-British at 76%. However those from Pakistani, Bangladeshi backgrounds have far lower rates in employment at 57%. The gap between men and women was biggest in the combined Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic group, where 75% of men and 39% of women were employed compared to 80% of men and 73% of women amongst White-British. As of 2020 , citizens of India and

2911-439: The UK's total population from 4.4% to 6.9%. In terms of birthplace, the first four categories of "Asian / Asian British" people are vastly represented by births in the United Kingdom and the corresponding national-based category (E.g. China and "Asian / Asian British: Chinese"). The following birthplace figures cover the region of England and Wales , which constitute 94.7 percent of the UK's Asian British statistics: In 2001,

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2982-474: The UK. Several Asian Britons have broken into the UK film industry , as well as Hollywood, and the U.S. film industry at large; starring in high-grossing box office films, including major film series , and receiving subsequent international recognition and media attention. In television, prominent roles in American sitcoms, series, and long-running British soap operas, such as Coronation Street , EastEnders , Emmerdale and Hollyoaks , have all had

3053-485: The UK. Although not following the UK's census formatting, there are numerous examples of the term gaining cultural traction in the country. Founded by Charles, Prince of Wales in 2007, the British Asian Trust follows the naming convention resultant from the popularity of the term, and projects an association to the category of British Asian people. After the appointment of Katy Perry as an ambassador of

3124-520: The United Kingdom came following the Second World War with the resumed control of Hong Kong , the breakup of the British Empire and the independence of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and later Bangladesh, especially during the 1950s and 1960s. An influx of Asian immigrants also took place following the expulsion or flight of Indian communities (then holders of British passports ) from the newly-independent Uganda , Kenya and Tanzania in

3195-485: The United Kingdom. In particular, Indians also came to Britain for educational or economic reasons during the British Raj (with most returning to India after a few months or years) and in greater numbers as the Indian independence movement led to the partition of 1947 , eventually creating the separate countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The most significant wave of Asian immigration to and settlement in

3266-1048: The arrival of Asians with British passports from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. At first these were the people employed in government and administrative roles, but this was expanded to include those Asians engaged in commerce. The movement was called the "Exodus". In 1972, all South Asians were expelled from Uganda by the controversial figure Idi Amin , then president of Uganda. Those holding British passports came to Britain. Many such displaced people who were predominantly of Gujarati origins had left behind successful businesses and vast commercial empires in Uganda, but built up their lives all over again in Britain, starting from scratch. Some of these "twice-over" migrants became retailers, while others found suitable employment in white-collar professions. The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 and Immigration Act 1971 largely restricted any further primary immigration , although family members of already-settled migrants were still allowed. In addition, much of

3337-443: The book for blasphemy . On 2 December 1988 the book was publicly burned at a demonstration in Bolton attended by 7,000 Muslims, followed by a similar demonstration and book-burning in Bradford on 14 January 1989. In 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie. Britain is also home of notable Asian religious leaders and scholars. Some of them are Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Caliph of

3408-408: The borough of Copeland was found to have the fattest population in England with a percentage of 75.9% being either overweight or obese (BMI greater than 25) according to official PHE statistics . In 2018 Copeland had the third highest median income of UK local authorities, after the City of London and Tower Hamlets . However this median hides the wide differences in income between those who work at

3479-483: The completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, going on to open businesses, like boarding houses , in port cities such as Cardiff and South Shields. There were also the Ceylonese (Sri Lankans) and the Bengalis who also took part in sailing. Following the Second World War and the breakup of the British Empire , South Asian migration to the UK increased through the 1950s and 1960s from Pakistan (including present-day Bangladesh), India and Sri Lanka (who are all members of

3550-457: The continent, creating dozens of British colonies and protectorates in Asia. The administrators of the British Empire termed Asian labourers working for them coolies , of which lascars were considered the maritime equivalent. Lascars were sailors or seamen from many different ethnic backgrounds. The term was sometimes used to specifically refer to a sailor of any Asian ancestry, however there were also African lascars recorded in Britain. Of

3621-411: The diverse populations of South Asia , including the countries of Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , Maldives , Nepal , Pakistan , and Sri Lanka . Afghanistan is variously considered to be a part of both Central Asia and South Asia, which means Afghans are not always included among South Asians, but when they are, South Asia has a total population of about 2.04 billion. The majority of

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3692-407: The early 1970s. Since the 2010s, British Asians have achieved positions of high political office; Sadiq Khan (of Pakistani descent) became Mayor of London in 2016, Rishi Sunak (of Indian descent) became the first British Asian Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in October 2022 and Humza Yousaf (also of Pakistani descent) became First Minister of Scotland in March 2023. In Britain,

3763-408: The end of the 16th century. Between the 17th and mid-19th century, increasingly diverse lascar crews heading for Britain imported East Asians , such as Japanese and Chinese seamen, Southeast Asians , such as Malays , South Asians such as the Indians (including the people from Pakistan), Bengalis and Ceylonese and post- Suez Canal ; West Asians , such as Armenians and Yemenis , who settled throughout

3834-436: The former British Raj and Ceylon (the modern countries of India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka and the Maldives ). The British Sociological Association 's guidelines on equality and diversity suggest that "South Asian" is more precise than "Asian" and that the latter should not be used where there is a risk of it conflating South Asians with people from elsewhere in Asia. The Office for National Statistics uses

3905-589: The highest proportion was in Glasgow at 11.08%; in Wales, the highest concentration was in Cardiff at 9.66%; and in Northern Ireland, the highest concentration was in Belfast at 3.74%. Due to a growing sense of affiliation with Britain, many third generation South Asians chose to not mark "Asian or British Asian" and instead marked "British Asian" in the "Other Asian" write in section. The 2011 United Kingdom census recorded 1,451,862 residents of Indian, 1,174,983 of Pakistani, 451,529 of Bangladeshi, 433,150 of Chinese, and 861,815 of "Other Asian" ethnicity, making

3976-451: The likes of the Trades Union Congress . He encouraged lascars and seamen to remain and settle in the United Kingdom. In the 1950s, he founded the Overseas Seamen's Welfare Association which campaigned distressed seamen and their families to be granted British passports . Ali also played an instrumental role in the opening of a passport office in his own home in Sylhet . Beginning around 1964 Africanization policies in East Africa prompted

4047-481: The northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka and a small pocket of Pakistan. The Iranic peoples also have a significant presence in South Asia, the large majority of whom are located in Afghanistan and the northwestern and western parts of Pakistan. Minority groups not falling within either large group mostly speak languages belonging to the Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families, and largely live around Ladakh and Northeast India , Nepal, Bhutan, and

4118-450: The population fall within three large linguistic groups : Indo-Aryan , Dravidian , and Iranic . These groups are also further subdivided into numerous sub-groups, castes and tribes. Indo-Aryans form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in India ( North India , East India , West India , and Central India ), Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Dravidians form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in southern India ,

4189-542: The population subscribing to no religion, 19% Christians and 12% Buddhists. British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis tend to be religiously homogeneous, with Muslims accounting for 92% of each group while their counterparts of Indian and Sri Lankan origin are more religiously diverse, with 55% Hindus, 29% Sikhs, and 15% Muslims. British Gujaratis are predominantly Hindu, belonging to various caste organizations, with large minorities of Muslims , Jains , and smaller numbers of Christians and Zoroastrians . Notable religious buildings are

4260-438: The reign of King George III . He wrote of his experiences and travels in his Persian book, Shigurf-nama-i-Wilayat ('Wonderous Chronicle of Europe'). This is also the earliest record of literature by a British Asian. Also during the reign of George III, the hookah-bardar (hookah servant/preparer) of James Achilles Kirkpatrick was said to have robbed and cheated Kirkpatrick, making his way to England and stylising himself as

4331-480: The subsequent growth in the South Asian community has come from the births of second and third-generation South Asian Britons. After Brexit , EU nationals working in the health and social care sector were replaced by migrants from non-EU countries such as India. About 250,000 people came from India, 90,000 from China and 83,000 from Pakistan in 2023. In 2021, the government launched a scheme for Hongkongers , with more than 200,000 Hong Kong residents immigrating to

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4402-408: The term "Asian / Asian British" to categorise British Indians , British Pakistanis , British Bangladeshis , British Chinese people and people of any other Asian ancestry. Definitions and naming conventions for the category have evolved in the history of UK censuses. The 1991 United Kingdom census was the first to include a question on ethnicity (apart from in Northern Ireland, where the question

4473-513: The term as an example of a hyphenated or dual identity within Europe . Use of "Asian Briton" has appeared as both an illustrative term in media and for purposes of self-identity. For example, in 2005, politician Shailesh Vara was described as an Ugandan Asian Briton. Television presenter Sonia Deol and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown have identified themselves as Asian Britons. In 1999, Alibhai-Brown published an Institute for Public Policy Research report, advising various departments of

4544-487: The term of "British Asian" as essentialising and hierarchising the values, or order of priority, of "British" and "Asian". The portmanteau Brasian has also been proposed as an alternative form of the term. In the course of the 2010s, usage of British Asian broadened in British media usage and in self-identification by British citizens or residents, to increasingly also include British people of heritage other than South Asia , such as East Asia and West Asia . In

4615-484: The terms used to describe residents and citizens of the United Kingdom with ancestry from Asia are, in alphabetical order, as follows: The term Asian Briton has been consistently used to refer to someone who is a British citizen or resident with ancestry from across the continent of Asia . In 2005, social science researcher Praful Bidwai used Asian Briton as an example of a "mixed" identity. In 2011, multiple scholars, such as Timothy Garton Ash and Sonja Licht , used

4686-449: The time of the final election in 2019 the council was composed of the following councillors: On 22 May 2014 a referendum was carried out in the borough to change the style of governance in Copeland to a directly elected mayor, after campaigners from the Time For Change team successfully obtained enough signatures from 5% of the electorate in a petition. The referendum result was: For: 12,671; Against: 5,489. The first election for mayor

4757-421: The word "Asian" most frequently refers to people with ancestry from the Indian subcontinent ( Pakistanis , Indians , Bangladeshis , Sri Lankans ) This usage contrasts to that in the United States , where it is used primarily to refer to people of East and South-East Asian origin. In British English usage, the term Asian usually refers to people who trace their ancestry to South Asia , in particular

4828-432: Was 69,318 according to the 2001 census , increasing to 70,603 at the 2011 Census. The name was derived from an alternative name for the Cumberland ward of Allerdale above Derwent, which covered roughly the same area. There are different explanations for the name. According to a document issued at the time of the borough's grant of arms, the name is derived from kaupland , meaning "bought land," referring to an area of

4899-452: Was delayed for a year and took place in 2022, the equivalent figure was 212,022, representing 3.9% of the population. The ten local authorities with the largest proportion of people who identified as Asian were: Redbridge (47.33%), Slough (46.75%), Harrow (45.23%), Tower Hamlets (44.43%), Leicester (43.40%), Newham (42.21%), Luton (36.99%), Hounslow (36.73%), Blackburn with Darwen (35.66%) and Hillingdon (33.32%). In Scotland,

4970-447: Was held on 7 May 2015 and Mike Starkie (elected as an Independent candidate, but later joining the Conservative Party ) was elected by 15,232 votes to the Labour Party candidate Steve Gibbon's 14,259 votes. The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Copeland. Asian British British Asians (also referred to as Asian Britons ) are British people of Asian descent. They constitute

5041-488: Was not asked until 2001). The question had tick-boxes for "Indian", "Pakistani" and "Bangladeshi". There was also a tick box, as well as a general "Any other ethnic group (please describe)" option for those not wishing to identify with any of the pre-set tick boxes. For the 2001 census , in England and Wales, "Indian", "Pakistani" and "Bangladeshi" and "Any other Asian background (please write in)" options were grouped under an "Asian or Asian British" heading, with appearing under

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