"This book offers a carefully researched, intellectually bracing and politically important corrective to complacent discourses of British 'failed multiculturalism,' by examining the complex interplay between global, regional and local dynamics around race, place, economy and policy. Focused empirically on the 'M62' corridor of Northern England connecting Leeds, Hull and Manchester, the authors upend and dismantle the polarising representation of this region as a space of chronic conflict and disenchantment between anti-integrationist Muslims and 'chavvy' White xenophobes, marching toward an assured future of mutual marginalisation and defeat. Instead, they show how the gaps between idealised (or demonised) national policy aspirations and concrete local policy enactments create opportunities for Stuart Hall's 'double meanings' of multiculturalism to come to life in all their messy complexity, marked by intercultural engagement and resilience as well as tension and despair. Through a refreshingly granular historical analysis, they also show why a supposed 'corridor of failure' is instead a 'corridor of uncertainty,' built around the contradictory lived experience of local cultural and economic dynamics. These local uncertainties are mirrored by national and indeed global uncertainties around how to deal with the social realities of burgeoning cultural diversity and economic upheaval, and the book provides an outstanding roadmap for navigating our way through the complex landscape of an often misrepresented and oversimplified social, cultural and economic terrain." - Professor Michele Grossman, Deakin University, Australia.