Problems in Britain following Post-War Immigration

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  • problems in Britain as a result of post-war immigration
    • Housing
      • unofficial chains of migration set up so that people from a particular Caribbean island settled in the same part of the UK
      • 85,000 European Voluntary workers
      • 492 West Indians and 108 Jamaicans came to Britain in 1948
      • many black immigrants came together to get housing after being turned away by landlords due to discrimination
    • Tension/discrimination
      • fight against Nazis had limited impact on immigration and racial attitudes
      • shift in the view of the colonies- racial inferiors to wartime allies
      • black workers invited to work in crucial industries during the war
        • 10,000 employed as ground crew by RAF
      • encouraged the first wave of West Indian workers to seek employment in Britain
      • revocation of the Alien Orders in 1942 leading many black people to enter Britain
    • Government response
      • MPS who represented constitencies with growing 'coloured' populations were keen to secure limits to Commonwealth immigration
      • Inter-Departmental Committee on Colonial People in the UK was set up to investigate ways to promote racial integration on a local, informal basis
      • councils and social services did not have the expertise to effectively promote integration
      • popular views of black people were heavily influenced by stories of violence in Africa and gangsters from Harlem in NY
    • Employment
      • full employment and the demand for cheap labour led the governent to try and recruit workers in Europe
        • 100,000 Poles and their dependents recruited as part of the Polish Resettlement Corps
      • the NHS, textile firms in the north and London Transport still advertised vacant positions throughout the New Commonwealth
        • London Transport had hostels for newly recruited and sent representatives to the Caribbean to search for staff

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