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1
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what act was passed in 1948

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british Nationality Act which gave all 800 million commonwealth citizens the chance to come to their ‘mother country’ and gain citizenship

2
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Empire Windrush 1948

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empire wind rush ship docked near London 1948

-500 people on board

3
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why were immigrants encouraged to come to Britain

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  • at first it was only people who had fought alongside Britain in wars
  • many other people keen to see country that had ruled them for so long
  • many countries were starting too become independent after WW2 so Britain set out to gain more control
4
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what did the government offer

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interest free loans so that people could afford to travel to the Uk

5
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what did Britain need immigrants for in terms of labour

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  • there was a shortage of labour for low paying unskilled jobs in Britain
  • Britain was attempting to rebuild country after war so recruited ppl from Barbados and Jamaica to drive buses, and trains
6
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main argument as to why Britain encouraged immigrants

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secure relations in case they needed them again

7
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The Immigrant experience:

-Where did immigrants live and what difficulties did they face in housing

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  • poor working class areas of Britain cities where rent was more affordable
  • many landlords refused to rent property to immigrants
8
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The Immigrant experience:

-what did many young Caribbeans plan to do with money they had earned

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-send it back to their families

9
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The Immigrant experience:

-what did a surge of young black men in communities cause

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  • white flight movement
  • -> groups of white men such as the ‘teddy boys’ claimed the young black men were stealing their women – tensions exploded in the Notting Hill riots 1958
10
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The Immigrant experience:

-what jobs did more skilled immigrants gain

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-immigrants from the Indian sub contient were highly skilled doctors who went to work for the NHS

11
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The Immigrant experience:

-what happened in Smethwick W.midlands 1965

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  • immigranst gained support of Malcolm X who visited area in 1965 in a protest against housing policy towards immigrants
  • irony was that Britain had boasted about Nazi fascism yet they allowed discrimination in their own country
12
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Government response

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  • by 1958 notting race riots had caused dozens of arrests injuries and damage
  • government responded by introducing acts
13
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Government response

2 main aims

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  • tackle racial discrimination that had developed

- control the number of immigrants coming into the country

14
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Government response

-two acts introduced when and why

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1962 and 1968

some historians believe that the second was to prevent the arrival 200,000 Asians coming to England from Kenya