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First published in Great Britain in 2011 by

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Contents

Like most academic projects, this one has been long in the making and we have accumulated a series of debts to those who have helped us out. First, we thank the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) who, in their wisdom, agreed back in 2004 to fund a research project by us on Gentrification, ethnicity and education in East London (RES-000-23-0793), which enabled us to undertake the basic research of which this book is the outcome. In a sense, that project was itself the outcome of previous research projects we had both undertaken separately on the changes that have been taking place in London over the last 30 odd years. We therefore owe a considerable debt to all those who supported our separate research trajectories which came together in this project.

In regard to this project, however, our biggest debt must be to Dr Mark Ramsden and Dr Sadiq Mir, who worked as research fellows on the project. Mark undertook much of the secondary analysis of existing data sets and they both worked on the survey and carrying out the interviews which are at the heart of the book. They also contributed to the drafting of papers and presentations which we have drawn on here. They made a considerable contribution not only to gathering the data but also to making sense of it. They had very different interview styles but both succeeded in getting people to talk about their hopes for, and fears about, their children and the futures they wanted to build for them.

We also wish to thank Professor Richard Webber, who very generously shared with us his access to the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) to which he had added categories from the Mosaic geodemographic database. He talked us, and Mark in particular, through how to work with this for the East London schools which we draw on substantially in the later chapters of the book. Lidija Marva did an excellent job of transcribing some of the tapes while at the same time finishing off her own PhD. We would also like to thank the editors of the following journals for publishing papers from the research, most of which we have drawn on in writing this book: Journal of Education Policy , Urban Studies , Environment and Planning A and Childrens Geographies .

We would also like to thank the professional services staff in the Department of Geography at Kings College London and in particular the Departmental Manager, Rob Hydon, for all the little ways in which we were supported in getting the research done. Thanks also to Lester Jones, our cartographer, working on the other side of the Atlantic, who produced many of the diagrams and figures. Our biggest intellectual debt is to the Cities Group at Kings College.

Finally, we would like to thank those 350-odd people in East London who agreed to talk to us, in some cases on more than one occasion. Without them, this book would not have happened. Emily Watt and her colleagues at The Policy Press and their three anonymous readers have been all that one should expect of a publisher: professional, supportive and persistent.

Tim Butler is Professor of Geography at Kings College London. He is the author of several books on the gentrification of London and also on the regeneration of East London as well as a jointly authored book on Understanding Social Inequality . He is now embarking on a comparative study of the middle classes in London and Paris. He is currently the Vincent Wright visiting professor at Sciences Po in Paris.

Chris Hamnett is Professor of Geography at Kings College London. He is the author of Winners and Losers: Home Ownership in Britain (1999), Unequal City: London in the Global Arena (2003) and other books. He is currently looking at the geographical impact of the government welfare cuts in Britain.

BME	black and minority ethnic
CCS	county comprehensive school
COS	Charity Organisation Society
DCSF	Department for Children, Schools and Families
ESRC	Economic and Social Research Council
EU	European Union
GIS	geographic information system
GLA	Greater London Authority
GLC	Greater London Council
ICS	Institute of Community Studies
ILEA	Inner London Education Authority
IMD	Index of Multiple Deprivation
LCC	London County Council
LDDC	London Docklands Development Corporation
LEA	local education authority
NPD	National Pupil Database
Ofsted	Office for Statistics on Education
ONS	Office for National Statistics
PLASC	Pupil Level Annual Social Survey
SEC	socioeconomic class
SEG	socioeconomic group
SEN	special educational needs
UDC	Urban Development Corporation

This area of London has always been a place that people aspire to, the first stop for people who are immigrants, so they come in to the East End and they work very hard in not very pleasant jobs, then they save enough money and they want to move to here then a lot of them will move on again, theyre not going to all stay here, a lot will want to move to more rural areas, thats my view. (White British, female, Redbridge)

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