IMMIGRATION
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- Created on: 23-04-16 10:25
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- IMMIGRATION
- 1918-1939
- 40,000 population
- mainly in port towns e.g. liverpool
- caused tension
- 1920 aliens orders act
- 1925 special restrictions act
- caused tension
- mainly in port towns e.g. liverpool
- Jewish immigrants in 1930's
- 1936: Battle of cable street BUF
- 40,000 population
- WW2
- men from empire bought to work in industry
- 100,000 Jamaicans to Liverpool and Manchester
- 10,000 West Indians in RAF
- British Army in India - 1 million soldiers
- no non whites became officers
- USA brought over segregated units and Jim Crow army
- 1942: alien orders act of 1920 ABOLISHED
- men from empire bought to work in industry
- 1948-1979
- 1948 British Nationality Act
- all people in the common-wealth a British citizen
- post war boom required more workers
- June 1948 ** Empire Windrush
- 492 West Indians
- next 5 years 3,000 black immigrants settled each year
- 1951: 80,000 West Indians
- June 1948 ** Empire Windrush
- fear of immigrants taking jobs
- putting pressure on housing - shortages in places like Brixton
- immigrants not intergrated
- 1956 Notting Hill Riots
- white men attacking black man
- 100 arrested
- led to Notting Hill carnival
- 1962 Common-wealth Immigrations act
- designed to end large scale immigration
- entry only gained if
- had a job waiting
- specific skills
- actually resulted in more immigrants
- families allowed to be reunited so brought over
- scared immigration would stop forever = rapid rate
- 1971: 1,500,000 population 3.3%
- entry only gained if
- designed to end large scale immigration
- Race Relations Act
- 1965: outlawed colour bar and set up RRB
- 1968: extended 1965, outlawing racism in housing and employment
- 1976: indirect discrimination outlawed
- combined CRC and RRB
- commission for raial equality
- combined CRC and RRB
- white back lash
- 1968 Enoch Powell
- rivers of blood speech
- gained mass support through marches and petitions
- rivers of blood speech
- 1968 Enoch Powell
- 1948 British Nationality Act
- 1918-1939
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