immigration and the politics of demographic governance in post-war Britain /
First Statement of Responsibility
James Hampshire.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 252 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Migration, minorities and citizenship
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The politics of immigration, race, and demographic governance -- Citizenship and belonging : the development of UK immigration policy -- The racial demography of immigration controls -- "Coloured Dick Whittingtons in this land of socialized 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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In this timely book, James Hampshire explores the politics of immigration in postwar 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 the population - Hampshire argues that racial ideas saturated 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."--BOOK JACKET.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Citizenship-- Great Britain.
Racism-- Great Britain.
Citizenship.
Emigration and immigration-- Government policy.
Politics and government
Racism.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain, Emigration and immigration, Government policy.