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Blacks in Britain

The scale of black presence in Britain certainly multiplied greatly during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s rising through a combination of migration and generational replacement to more than 2 million people in 1981’’

3)’’black individuals and communities were already a feature of British society prior to the arrival of large numbers of black immigrants after the Second World War.’’

Page 47,48 Race and Politics in Britain

The Black Population of Britain could be comprised into three groups based on their mode of settlement.

1)'' there are those who migrated from different parts of the world principally south asia and the caribbean during the 1950's and 60 to seek better jobs and ...

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statutory immigration controls in 1962, but this new legislation could not prevent a massive bulge in primary immigrants suddenly arriving in Britain in 1961-1962 in an attempt to try to beat the effects of new controls based on labour requirements and skills.' This migration composed of non white young males who are young married or soon to be married came in order to search for work and better economical conditions than the one provided in their home country.

pg 49

2)''Dependants of primary economic migrants. As primary labour migration was progressively checked by increasingly restrictionist immigration laws after 1962, the actual flow of primary immigrants began to fall off. it was the 1972 legislation which through the concept of patriarchy reflected in its much criticised ''grandfather clause'' served to reduce radically the ability of new labour migrants to enter britain, a country which many could not claim to have a close ancestral link. From 1971 large scale ...

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will toe exercise the right of abode- that their British nationality had conferred upon them- was largely rejected by the government. A new immigration bill was passed through parliament in a matter of days in February 1968 which stripped such rights from the considerable numbers of asians who had not already entered or joined the queue to enter britain.

'Another similar nationality crisis took place between 1972073, were British Asians in Uganda were kicked out over a 'strict 90-day period meant that the British government was forced to recognise their refugee status and admit them to Britain'' Pg 50

''Finally a third refugee episode took place during 1976 when several ...

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