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We're here because you were there : immigration and the end of empire /

Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ian Sanjay Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. In a series of postwar immigration laws, Britain's colonial and Commonwealth citizens from t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patel, Ian Sanjay (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Brooklyn, New York : Verso, [2021]
Subjects:
Postcolonialism > Great Britain.
Immigrants > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Colonies.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1945-
Table of Contents:
  • We're here: immigration and empire
  • Immigration and the white man's world
  • Beyond windrush: a short history of post-war immigration in Britain (1945-1962)
  • A hostile isle: post-war immigration in Britain (1962-1981)
  • You were there: international voices
  • The persistence of empire
  • Postscripts to decolonisation
  • Race and immigration in a decolonising world
  • Here and there: South Asian migration at the end of empire
  • Inflating the threat: the global immigration crisis of 1967
  • The Kenyan South Asian crisis: no entry for British citizens (1968)
  • The Ugandan South Asian crisis: making British nationality a global responsibility (1972).