Presentation of the study; an evaluation of factors which contributed to or detracted from the formation of a successful multi-racial society in postwar Britain.
BACKGROUND: IMMIGRATION INTO BRITAIN
Invasions since ancient times left Britain with an ethnically and culturally mixed population. However, by early-modern times, Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and French populations had merged sufficiently to define a "native" population, as opposed to "foreign" immigrants.
B. Immigration Before the Twentieth Century
1. Jews: Expulsion and Re-Admission
Italians and other peoples from the Roman Empire must have entered Britain in Roman times, but these had lost all distinct identity during the Dark Ages. Immigration during medieval and early-modern times.
A significant African population existed in England in Elizabethan times. What happened to this population?
The British Empire established links with India and other parts of Asia; what level of immigration was there, and what was the fate of the immigrants?
British rule in the West Indies produced a racially-mixed population there. What was the fate of early West Indian immigrants?
C. Immigration in the Twentieth Century
The beginning of the twentieth century marked the approximate apogee of the British Empire. What immigration patterns existed in the early twentieth century? How was immigration affected by the rise of Fascism and Nazism?
1. Imperial Immigration before World War II
Attitudes toward nonwhite immigrants. The "race riots" of 1919: causes and consequences.
3. Refugee Immigration due to Fascism and Nazism
The rise of fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany produced a new stream of migrants, refugees from these regimes, and this continued
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