Immigration policies 1918-39

Question 1

The ‘colour bar’

Answer 1

British citizens had the same rights to work and use public facilities.
BUT people of colour were excluded or denied access often.

Question 2

Race riots

Answer 2

1919 - angry mobs of unemployed white Britons attacked minorities for ‘taking British jobs’.
Cardiff, Newport, London etc.

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

1919 - Trade Unions also fought for the ‘right’ of white workers.

Question 4

Alien Orders Act

Answer 4

1920 - required migrant workers to register with the police before seeking work, those who failed were punished by deportation.

Question 5

Special Restictions Act

Answer 5

1925 - Forced ‘coloured’ seamen to prove their British citizenship or face deportation.
Assumed that they were non-British unless they could prove it.
Unfair - few carried such important documents with them.