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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: RACISM AND FASCISM

Volume 10

JOHN BULLS ISLAND

JOHN BULLS ISLAND

Immigration and British Society, 18711971

COLIN HOLMES

First published in 1988 by The Macmillan Press Ltd

This edition first published in 2016

by Routledge

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1988 Colin Holmes

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ISBN: 978-1-138-93422-1 (Set)

ISBN: 978-1-315-66966-3 (Set) (ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-93849-6 (Volume 10) (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-67562-6 (Volume 10) (ebk)

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JOHN BULLS ISLAND

Immigration and British Society, 18711971

Colin Holmes

Colin Holmes 1988

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Printed in Hong Kong

Reprinted 1992

The Publishers wish to acknowledge the following illustration sources:

The Manchester Jewish Museum, the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit, the Sheffield Local History Library, the National Museum of Wales and the BBC Hulton Picture Library.

Contents

Preamble

Early immigrants and refugees

Immigration after 1871

Reverse movement: emigration from Britain

Preamble

Immigration of the Irish; Immigrants from Germany; Immigrants and refugees from the tsars empire; Immigration from Italy; Minorities from beyond Europe; Small, neglected groups

The economic and social history of the Irish; Clerks, capitalists, and others from Germany: work and culture; Salient features of the economic and social history of groups from the Russian Empire; The Italian community; From beyond the oceans: Chinese, Black and Indian groups

Introductory comment on responses; The morals habits and future prospects of our country: responses to the Irish 18711914; British society and the Germans; Responses to immigration from the Russian Empire; British society, Italy and Italians; Responses to minorities from beyond Europe, particularly the Chinese

Concluding comment

The trauma of the Great War

The arrival of the Belgian refugees; Russian and Armenian refugees; An enormous increase in Britains Black population

Belgians in wartime Britain; The obscure economic and social history of Blacks and Indians, 191418

Alien enemies: hostility towards Germans and others; British public opinion and the gallant Belgians; The friendly aliens from the tsars empire: wartime tensions; Englands difficulty and the Irish; Black and White: collective violence in Britain; The Chinese: continuing problems; The aftermath of war: the 1919 Aliens Act

The saddest and most exciting years

Refugees: in successive waves they came; Refugees from Hitlerite Europe; The Irish; from the green land to Britain; The immigration of Imperial minorities

A glance backwards: the experiences of earlier Jewish newcomers; The refugees from Nazism: economic and social history; The Irish community in the interwar years; Blacks and Indians: workers and entertainers, students and politicians

Anti-alien sentiment after the Great War; Responses to the refugees from Nazism; No Irish: a people alien in race, temperament and religion; The colour problem in Britain; Summary

The trauma of war

More refugees from Hitlerite Europe; Entry from a neutral Eire; Technicians, trainees and foresters from the Empire; Military personnel from the colonies and India; Wartime allies: Polish and other groups in Britain

Economic and social history of the Jewish minority: internment; Contribution of aliens to the war effort; In a strange land: The Irish in wartime Britain; The economic and social history ofthe coloured population

Introductory comment; Jews and other aliens: internment as official policy; The fate of the Italians: a neglected group; The Southern Irish: wartime controls and continuing suspicion; Personally, I do not like this mixture of colour: British society and the Black minority; The war in retrospect

The postwar world

Early immigration: the Baghdadi Jews; The settlement of the Poles; From the DP Camps to Britain: the arrival of the EVWs; The Postwar Immigration from Italy; The upsurge in Irish immigration; The Chinese population also increases; Africans: stowaways and students; From the Caribbean to Britain: West Indians begin to arrive; From the Indian sub-continent: Indians and Pakistanis come to Britain; Refugee arrivals from Africa: The Kenyan Asians; An attempt at quantification; Areas of settlement; Other miscellaneous groups

Introductory comment; Employment patterns; Immigrants refugees and the housing market; Political and religious life; Concluding comment

British public opinion and the Jewish minority; The Reception of the Poles, Italians and EVWs; The toleration of the Irish?; British society and the Chinese: the most unassimilable group; Responses to groups from the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent

Summary and perspective

Immigration into Britain

Perspectives n the economic and social history of immigrants and refugees between 1871 and 1971

Toleration and Hostility. Simple or complex?

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