Young Bangladeshi people's experience of transition to adulthood Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood Published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation Price 13.95 (or download from www.jrf.org.uk) 56 pages ISBN 1 85935 271 5
Bangladeshis finish at the wrong end of too many lists. Compared with other minority ethnic groups in Newcastle, the site of this interesting study, they have the lowest household income, highest unemployment and most overcrowding. Other studies have shown persistent educational underachievement and limited access to health care and other services.
Further details are often scarce as a lot of surveys aggregate Bangladeshis, or Bengalis as they often identify themselves, under wider Asian or just minority ethnic groupings. This study of young people's transitions takes as a starting point the need to give a voice to the particular experiences of this relatively hidden group - one of the youngest and fastest-growing communities in the UK.
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