3 Migration after ww2 1945-1951 Flashcards
acts
1947 Polish Resettlement Act
allowed 200,000 polish war veeternas to settle in the k
acts
1948 British Nationality Act
800m people allowed citizenship
- labour shortage encouraged this
between 1939-1949
how many migrants joined the RAF
from the Caribbean, and India/Pakistan
124,000 migrants from the Caribbean and 54,700 from India and Pakistan
new lucrative opportunities for migrants? who opened what in LDN?
Dr Mook Sang opened nightclubs in London, and Jamaican DJ Wilbert Agustus Campbell played Jamaican Ska Reggae in clubs.
during the 1950s
management quotas
Ford Dagenham, Vickers, and Tate and Lyle enfored a quota system where 95% of workers had to be white
white violence
what caused it?
- mixed race couples were beaten by white men
- black and asian people blamed for economic problems
white violence
notting hill riots
1958
- 3-700 white men armed by knives and heavy leather belts beat black residents in Notting Hill.
- police did little, while the men chanted ‘keep britain white’
- black communities had to organise their own defence
impact of the war
many immigrants joined the army, why?
- to escape poverty
- some felt it was a duty to serve as part of a British colony
impact of the war
polish resettlement corps, european volunteers full employment.
100,000 poles recruited as part of the Polish Resettlement Corps.
- seperately along with 85,000 european voluntary workers,
- but this still didnt meet requirements for Britain full employment.
impact of the war
European Volunteer Workers Scheme
NHS, texctile firms and TFL sent representatives to recruit people to their services.
impact of the war
1948 immigrants, how many? (west indian, Jamaican, black)
- 492 west indian passengers disembarked at Tilbury docks in 1948
- 108 Jamaican immigrants
- 3000 black immigrants settling each year in Britain following this
