The Ballards (1977) have proposed a four-stagé development cycle for South Asian settlement in Britain. The movement of South Asian groups through such a cycle may be thought to demonstrate increasing permanence, steady erosion of cultural values, and a rejection of the economic reasoning behind the initial migration. In the assimilationist tradition, spatial and temporal changes in Asian settlement would be seen as outward manifestations of the adoption of the values and norms of the receiving society.