22 Education & Career
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GAIN DIASPORA RESEARCH REPORT 2019 The scope of the research was to have an initial picture of the African Community living in the city of Nottingham, England. For this purpose, physical and online questionnaires were developed. The physical was used for a field research that was carried out to map the community across the city. Using the wards as guidance, the team walked through the main roads of every ward approaching people in the streets, and the results were very variable in quality and quantity. Collecting data was challenging mainly due to initial mistrust when they were approached by the team. From a total population of 326 individuals interviewed.
Of all the wards across Nottingham; Arboretum, Bilborough and Bridge have the highest African density, while the numbers are fairly high in Dales and St. Ann’s. The wards with the lowest density are Dunkirk, Lenton and Bulwell followed by Wollaton West, Mapperley and Aspley with only 0.9%. The numbers also specifically show that a number of communities prefer a set of area within Nottingham. Over 98% of Algerians are living Basford, all of the questioned Libyans are living in Leen Valley, while Egyptians prefer the area of Bridge. Many of the Namibians are living in the Arboretum and Botswanans mostly stay in Leen Valley. The report also found out that 76.9% of those interviewed are Christians; followed by Muslims with 16.4% and little over 6% declared other religion belief. Men make up to 55.9% and female, 41.1% while 96.8% are heterosexual and 3.2% homosexual. Majority of the respondents have an age rank between 16 and 44 years, with 28.4% representing 16-24 year-olds while 27.4% were 25-34 and those in the range of 35 to 44 years made 25.8%.
The report found out that majority of the African people living in Nottingham come from three countries namely Nigeria with 29.4%, Ghana with 14.4% and Zimbabwe with 12%. Some countries are also well represented like Kenya with 9.7%, Sudan with 6% and Angola with 3.7%. Some countries were not represented by population, such as Morocco, Tunisia, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Gabon, Dijbouti, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique and Madagascar. According to the report, 48.8% of those interviewed have Indefinite Leave to remain while 22.4% have limited leave to remain; 6% were refugees (representing Sudan a 77.7% of this population) and 3% as asylum seekers. Of the 299 respondents, 38% were studying full time, 19.6% employed full time, 6.3% studying part time, a 15.3% employed part time, a 6.3% self-employed, 3.7% business owner, 1.2% as minister of religion, 0.3% retired, 0.9% unable to work due to illness or disability and 0.9% caring for family members.
Importantly, majority of the communities have some type of education (being Degree 24.4% of the total), but strongly highlighted issues like racism, cultural barrier and integration, trauma, isolation, hate crime and exploitation among others as problems they are most of the times confronted with.
