The politics of immigration to Britain: East‐West migrations in the twentieth century

Miles, Robert; Kay, Diana

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“…Consequently, there was a racialized bias towards the recruitment of Balts.' 30 Because of this racial and ethnic preference system, migratory pressures from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe produced coincidental restrictions on immigration.…”

Section: Shared Migratory Pressuresmentioning

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The causes of convergence in Western immigration control

Meyers¹

2002

Rev. Int. Stud.

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In recent years, some scholars have argued that there has been a convergence of the immigration control policies of the industrial democracies. This article demonstrates that, in fact, there has been an extraordinary similarity among the immigration control policies of the major receiving countries for over a century. It examines six alternative explanations for these similarities in immigration control policies: (1) a global hegemon that forces or persuades various countries to act in unison; (2) global or regional migration regimes and organizations; (3) interdependence between the immigration control policies of various countries; (4) emulation of immigration control policies of one country by other countries; (5) the world system approach; and (6) interdependence between the socioeconomic and foreign policy factors that lead to immigration control policies. The article argues that it is the last factor that explains most of the similarity among the immigration control policies. It demonstrates how global economic cycles, shared migratory pressures, alliances that produce common foreign policy considerations, wars that receiving countries are involved in and global ideological cycles produce the convergence of immigration control policies in various receiving countries.

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Section: Shared Migratory Pressuresmentioning

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The causes of convergence in Western immigration control

Meyers¹

2002

Rev. Int. Stud.

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“…Mandek, a Pole who arrived in Britain in 1947 and trained as a coal miner, explained that during the post‐war period, there was considerable hostility towards Polish workers: ‘obviously they wouldn't take any Poles or foreigners’. So Polish men like Mandek were assigned the lowest‐paid jobs that nobody else wanted (Miles & Kay, 1994). Jozef, who arrived from Poland as a refugee after WWII, recounted that ‘we were quite openly called “ bloody foreigners ”’.…”

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Analysing migrants' ageing in place as embodied practices of embedding through time: ‘Kilburn is not Kilburn any more’

Ryan

Kilkey

Lőrinc

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Population Space and Place

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There is growing attention to how people navigate and make sense of particular places through the ageing process. Against this backdrop, there is increasing research on ageing in contexts of migration. Although much of this research focuses on retirement and return migration, comparatively less is known about migrants who remain in the destination society, especially in advanced old age. Drawing on qualitative data, we analyse the experiences of three groups of ageing migrants who have been less visible in research and policy (Caribbean, Irish, and Polish) and of those living in two U.K. sites (London and Yorkshire). Using the concept of embedding, we analyse migrants' identifications with and attachment to particular places over time. In so doing, we highlight not only how migrants negotiate dynamic local places through embodied ageing processes but also how these negotiations may be mediated by wider sociopolitical events including Brexit and the ‘Windrush scandal’.

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Restructuring Territoriality

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The bundling of political authority into mutually exclusive territorial boundaries - territoriality - is a fundamental principle of modern political organization. Indeed, it provides the foundation for other cherished institutions - national sovereignty, citizenship, the modern welfare state, and democracy. Are globalization, internationalization, and Europeanization conspiring to unbundle territoriality? If so, are sovereignty, citizenship, the welfare state, and democracy unravelling as well? Is a new post-national, non-territorial form of political organization, heralded by the European Union, being born? With a focus on Europe, this volume explores these issues from various substantive and theoretical perspectives. The authors find evidence of the diffusion of authority both within and beyond the state, producing novel institutional arrangements and new modes of governance. But the United States may provide more useful insights into the new dispensation than the idea of a post-national, non-territorial politics. Interest in contemporary challenges to democracy run throughout this volume.

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The politics of immigration to Britain: East‐West migrations in the twentieth century

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

The causes of convergence in Western immigration control

The causes of convergence in Western immigration control

Analysing migrants' ageing in place as embodied practices of embedding through time: ‘Kilburn is not Kilburn any more’

Restructuring Territoriality

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