How many bangladeshi live in uk

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XLS format. PNG format. PDF format. North East. North West. South East. South West. West Midlands. The skills and social and cultural capital of the British Pakistanis who originate from Mirpur, less integral to Pakistan than Sylhet is to Bangladesh, leave them less able to succeed in Britain, says Dr Parveen Akhtar, from the University of Bradford. The Bangladeshi population is also less constrained by kinship ties, Akhtar believes.

Younger British Bangladeshis have benefited from how their parents have become integrated into British life. As Bangladeshis have become more successful, so younger generations have become more aspirational. Huge challenges remain. While the employment rate of Bangladeshis has improved — the proportion of women in work has risen by one-third in the last five years, according to research by Yaojun Li, from the University of Manchester — it still lags behind educational performance.

Nine per cent of working age Bangladeshis are unemployed, almost twice the national average, Li has found. This allowed us to explore some of the smaller communities of Bengalis across the UK and also to get a sense of how the Bangladeshi community in Britain is changing and becoming more scattered.

This also meant that we could look at the role of the restaurant trade in the Bangladeshi community explored under Migration Themes: Work and changing patterns of marriage explored under Migration Themes: Marriage. Bangladeshis made up 2. Shoeb Chowdhury first arrived in Birmingham in but returned to Bangladesh as a child for his education. He came back to the UK in He told us:. The situation in England in the early 70s was different.

There were only a few mosques and madrassas and not many Muslims… There were only 10 or 12 families. There were many Pakistanis. As there were only a few Bengalis, we would get together in one or two houses to socialise. The people were few in number so there was no sense of community. The Bangladesh Welfare Trust was the only organisation. When I came back here in , the situation was different, the community was fully developed. Five or six organisations were active in Birmingham. A former mill town, Blackburn lies 21 miles north-west of Manchester.

The Bangladeshi population is, however, comparatively small: in there were less that 0. Laila Rahman first came to the UK in but moved to Blackburn in the s. Her husband spoke of the industrial history of the town:. There were many textile mills. It was said that in December you couldn't see the sun because of all the mills, the smoke and the fog.

Houses were very cheap compared to London… We did what we could afford to do… This is a very small area. It is a close knit community. There are many Bengali households but they keep themselves to themselves… There are more people but they mainly work in the restaurants… Pakistanis live in one place and Gujarati Muslims live in another. Bengalis live in between… Our people generally concentrate in the town centre.

Many have relatives in Bradford. There is a strong Bangladeshi community. There are links, there is good communication between the cities, it is easy to travel. Bangladeshis are only 1. Bangladeshis mainly live in four wards in the city: Manningham, where 7.

Nurunnobi Miah arrived in Bradford in and worked in the local textile factories for 31 years, until his factory closed in He described Bradford to us:.