I don't have a synthesis to offer, just the consideration that technology is not inherently disabled-friendly. Like architecture, technology has to be "made" accessible - or a tool for access - and most of the time this is not the case.

Also, isn't this standard narrative for mid 19C MCR, otherwise the 19th depopulation of the central districts by the emerging middle classes to the suburbs would make no sense...

Exactly! I mean, it's hard, it's also unfinished work and there is always room for improvement. That's also why it is easy to use language proficiency as a proxy for discrimination.

That's my experience too. In the UK often it's enough to have a foreign accent to be seen as someone "who never bothered to learn the language".

It's always only standard received pronunciation for these kinds of courses... I happen to have only US/Canadian teachers, and after ten years, I still discover words that I don't pronounce in the British way.

Yes, also as a student, the core of my learning was through books, and some of the best pages of theory/ethnography were in monographs.

Unfortunately, this seems to be quite a common trend. I cannot say that I am good at writing books, but I think that they offer an opportunity for analysis, depth and experimentation that articles do not offer.

4/ Skin colour, accent, name or whatever are used by some employers (and landlords) to judge whether to carry out a check. Foreigners face checks but so too do ethnic minority Brits. Existing system is a recipe for discrimination.

4) Generalised digital IDs have downsides and some upsides. Dematerialising the compulsory ID of most non-citizens in the UK had very little upside and made people vulnerable. That one would have been the policy to actually complain about