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Citizenship and Belonging Immigration and the Politics of Demographic Governance in Postwar Britain

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ISBN-10: 0230510523

ISBN-13: 9780230510524

Edition: 2005

Authors: James Hampshire

List price: $105.00
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In this timely book, James Hampshire explores the politics of immigration in post-war Britain and reveals how fears about welfare scrounging, public health and miscegenation influenced government policy. Locating immigration policy-making within a wider context of demographic governance - the state's management of population - Hampshire argues that radical ideas saturated post-war debates about immigration and its impact on British society. He shows how the British government appealed to an idea of 'belonging' in order to validate what was, at core, a racialized policy designed to obstruct colonial immigration. With immigration at the top of the current political agenda, Hampshire provides…    
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Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Ebsco Publishing
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 252
Language: English

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
The Politics of Immigration, Race and Demographic Governance
Citizenship and Belonging: The Development of UK Immigration Policy
The Racial Demographic of Immigration Controls
'Coloured Dick Whittingtons in this Land of Socialised Gold': Immigration and the Welfare State
'Men Without Women': Gender, Sex and the 'Threat' of Miscegenation
Public Health and Immigration Policy
The Contemporary Politics of Immigration and Demographic Change
Bibliography
Index
The Politics of Immigration, Race and Demographic Governance
Citizenship and Belonging: The Development of UK Immigration Policy
The Racial Demographic of Immigration Controls
'Coloured Dick Whittingtons in this Land of Socialised Gold': Immigration and the Welfare State
Men Without Women: Gender, Sex and the 'Threat' of Miscegenation
Public Health and Immigration Policy
The Contemporary Politics of Immigration and Demographic Change