How imperial hopes for the Commonwealth led to British citizenship being redefined along racial lines
Patel, I.
(20 May 2021)
How imperial hopes for the Commonwealth led to British citizenship being redefined along racial lines.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
In a series of post-war immigration laws, Britain’s colonial and Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa were renamed immigrants. In the late 1960s, British officials drew upon an imperial vision of the world to contain what they saw as a vast immigration ‘crisis’ involving British citizens, passing legislation to block their entry, explains Ian Sanjay Patel.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2021 The Author |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Sociology |
| Date Deposited | 26 Jul 2021 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111377 |