British Immigration Policy Since 1939 Book

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	List of tables
	List of abbreviations
	Preface
1	The origins of multi-racial Britain	1
	A twentieth-century story	1
	The first settled communities, 1850-1939	5
	Government policy and the growth of communities, 1919-39	8
	The Second World War	13
2	Immigration policy in practice, 1945-55	21
	The myth of civis Britannicus, sum	21
	The issue and endorsement of travel documents	23
	Publicity and passages	32
	Stowaways, one-way sailors and unemployed seamen	33
	Asian and black labour and economic recovery, 1945-55	38
	'Coloured' immigration and the official mind, 1945-55	42
	A policy of obstruction	46
3	The making of policy, 1945-55	49
	A matter of constant concern	49
	The Empire Windrush	51
	The British Nationality Act, 1948	53
	Labour's way, 1945-51	55
	Churchill's way: The battle lines drawn, 1951-4	58
	The international dimension	65
	The first great debate, 1954-5	68
	The reasons why not	74
4	Policy and practice under strain, 1955-62	82
	'Too many difficulties to proceed now'	82
	The watching brief, November 1955 - July 1958	85
	Calculating the rate of Asian and black immigration, 1955-62	87
	1958: the south Asian surge	91
	1958: the riots	98
	Administrative measures and deportation, 1958-9	102
	The official mind and the search for a justification, 1959-61	108
	Political and popular pressures for change, October 1959 - October 1961	120
5	The making of multi-racial Britain, 1962-91	129
	The importance of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1962	129
	Closing the door: new rules, 1965	134
	East African Asians	140
	The Immigration Act, 1971	143
	The Ugandan exodus	144
	The British Nationality Act, 1981	147
	Conclusion	152
	Notes	162
	Bibliography	192
	Index	201