Finsbury Park should not be confused with Finsbury, which is a district of CentralLondon roughly three miles to the south, forming the south-eastern part of the London Borough of Islington.
The centre of Finsbury Park has a larger than average immigrant population with a lower level of residents born in the UK than the national average and a higher rate of residents either born in EU countries or outside the EU.[2] This composition is probably not fully representative of the whole neighbourhood.
Demographic history
Scottish and Welsh Presbyterian churches reflect patterns of immigration into London from other regions of the United Kingdom.[6][7] Welsh-language poet Dewi Emrys and Timothy Eynon Davies were among those who ministered in the district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[8][9]
The 1960s and 1970s saw a large influx of Bangladeshis alongside pockets of Pakistanis, Indians and Burmese who settled in the borough. Many moved to surrounding locales[citation needed] as their economic prowess grew in the 1980s. They made significant contributions to local business and politics as well as to religious institutions (e.g. the founding of the original Finsbury Park Mosque. A number of immigrant-led businesses opened on Blackstock Road, an area associated with the Algerian immigrant community amongst others.[10]
There had been a large minority of the African Caribbean diaspora arriving in the area bordering Manor House throughout the same period and as early as the Windrush generation.[11] Greek Cypriots and later Turkish Cypriots started to arrive in the 1960s and 70s as economic migrants firmly establishing themselves in business through the clothing trade on Fonthill Road.[12]
In the 1980s and 90s, immigrants included significant populations of Somalis populating the area as refugees and asylum seekers at the height of the crisis in their homeland[11] and more recent arrivals of settled EU nationals from Scandinavian countries. The top of Blackstock Road is colloquially called "little Algiers" because of the large North African presence in the area.[12]
^ abAs explained in the Geography section, this neighbourhood is within two administrative districts. The demographics information relates to just one out of these districts. It relates to the most central of the districts and is probably not fully representative of the whole neighbourhood.
^Emrys Jones; Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (21 September 2001). The Welsh in London, 1500–2000. University of Wales Press on behalf of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. p. 185. ISBN978-0-7083-1697-9.
