Race, Discourse and Labourism

Knowles, Caroline

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“…Although the 1950s are widely regarded as the first time UK politics dealt with race issues this is not the case. The early years of the twentieth century brought debates on race from Indian independence negotiations and British anti-Semitism (Knowles 1990b) 5. Ann Dummett (1973) discusses the obsession of British politics with what she calls 'the numbers game'.…”

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Reframing sociologies of ethnicity and migration in encounters with Chinese London

Knowles

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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In this paper I argue that the intersecting sociologies of ethnicity and migration work from a series of interconnected blind spots hindering effective analysis of the current UK situation. Both operate analytically within the limitations of an 'immigrant problem' framework; are overinvested in state agendas; privilege a nation state analysis; are narrowly focused on distributions of migrant bodies, and on receiving, at the expense of sending, contexts. Exploring these limitations with data derived from a modest small-scale qualitative study of young Chinese migrants in London, I argue for a reframing along four dimensions. Firstly, in an era of elite migration, sociology could reach beyond its immigrant problem framework and open up to a broader range of UK migrant ethnicities and circumstances. Secondly, a stronger focus on cities as the scale on which lives are lived, and through which diverse streams of translocal activity are routed, would open new avenues of sociological exploration. Thirdly, including translocal activities connected with distributions of ethnic migrant bodies, such as capital transfers, would broaden its focus, taking migration and ethnicity more centrally into the analysis of globalization as one of its constituting practices. Finally, paying attention to sending, as well as arrival cities, reveals migrants' thinking and shapes the ways in which they live, as my data shows. The Chinese are both one of the UK's neglected minorities, and one of its fastest growing populations. They are a good example of new UK migrants and they bring globalization's realignment with the rising significance of China to the UK.

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2017

British Journal of Sociology

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“…In terms of Britain's imperial role, the Commonwealth was seen for both the left and the right of the party as a means of continuing British influence, and carried an implicit assumption of Britain's leadership. 13 Indeed, the Labour Party has often emphasised that a Labour government can give Britain 'the moral leadership of the world', 14 and be a 'force for good in the world'. 15 Throughout the twentieth century Labour has stressed the potential for Britain to play a leadership role in international disarmament (including nuclear disarmament) and control of the arms industry.…”

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The Labour Party and the World, Volume 1

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“…Αρχικά, οι Εργατικοί εμπέδωσαν την αρνητική εικόνα των 'έγχρωμων' μειονοτήτων με το να τους θεωρούν κατάλληλους μόνο για χειρωνακτικές εργασίες, για απασχόληση που δεν ταίριαζε στον γηγενή πληθυσμό (Knowles 1992;Smith 1994). Οι εκπρόσωποι του κόμματος άρθρωναν επιχειρήματα για το ασυμβίβαστο του βρετανικού τρόπου ζωής με εκείνον των 'έγχρωμων' πολιτών της Κοινοπολιτείας.…”

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Η Βρετανική Ταυτότητα Ως Αφήγηση: Εργατικό Κόμμα Και Ευρώπη, 1961-2000

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Race, Discourse and Labourism

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Reframing sociologies of ethnicity and migration in encounters with Chinese London

Reframing sociologies of ethnicity and migration in encounters with Chinese London

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Η Βρετανική Ταυτότητα Ως Αφήγηση: Εργατικό Κόμμα Και Ευρώπη, 1961-2000

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