We're Here Because You Were There
We're Here Because You Were There What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain?Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ian Sanjay Patel…
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We're Here Because You Were There
What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain?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 the late 1960s, British officials drew upon an imperial vision of the world to contain what it saw as a vast immigration 'crisis' involving British citizens, passing legislation to block their entry. In a series of post-war immigration laws, Britain's colonial and Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa were renamed immigrants.
Combining voices of so-called immigrants trying to make a home in Britain and the As a result, British citizenship itself was redefined along racial lines, fatally compromising the Commonwealth and exposing the limits of Britain's influence in world politics.