Immigration Flashcards
In what year did the feature film, Sapphire, dramatise the issue of race relations?
1959
When did Enoch Powell make his infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech?
April 1968
In what year did the violent riots in Brixton and Liverpool take place?
1981
In what year did the Kenyan policy of ‘Africanisation’ cause mass immigration?
How many immigrants a month were moving to Britain?
What did Britain try to do?
How many came in total?
1968
About 1000 migrants a year
Britain tried to limit this migration
Kenyan Asians started to migrate faster, total of 13,000 in 2 months
In what year did Idi Amin(Ugandan Military Dictator) banish the 50,000 Ugandan Asian?
How long did he give them to leave?
How many fled to Britain?
1972
He gave them 3 months to leave
Special measures let 28,000 enter Britain
What percentage of the British voters saw immigration as a vital issue in 2001?
3%
What percentage of the British voters saw immigration as a vital issue in 2007?
Why was this?
30%
People were worried that the population was growing too fast
In the 1990s there was a sharp increase in the number of asylum-seekers wishing entry into Britain, where was this mainly from?
Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq
Some of these were “bogus” asylum seekers - came for the wealth
In 2004, many guest workers entered Britain, from where did this mainly happen?
The new A8 EU Countries, especially Poland
In what year was the black teenager Stephen Lawrence murdered?
1993
What happened on 7th July 2005?
4 British-born jihadists set off 4 suicide bombs
52 civilians were killed by the bombs
Then an innocent young Brazilian was mistaken for a fifth bomber, and was shot and killed
When did the serious anti-immigrant Notting Hill riots take place?
August 1958
