Conclusion: Not Such a ‘Failure’: A Multiculturalist Space in Development

In our conclusion, we review the perspectives and issues developed throughout the book to argue both that a much longer term, critical historical perspective needs to be applied to understandings both of the ‘integration’ of modern migrant communities, especially Muslims, to the M62 corridor region and state policy efforts to support this, and that the structural economic changes the region has undergone since the late 1960s are central to explanations of current tensions, challenges and barriers.