Migration Unit: 4

Question 1

What government action contributed to migration?

Answer 1

• 1962 Commonwealth immigrants act - ended the automatic right of commonwealth citizens to live and work in Britain
• 1968 Race relations act - Made discrimination in public illegal
• Recent cases of anti-migration - Brexit, Rwanda

Question 1

Leicester

Answer 1

• Indian and Pakistan migration due to the partition
• Took up jobs in textile industry
• Many suffered discrimination
• Ugandan Asian migrants flee to Leicester due to Idi Amin and the persecution of Asians
• Leicester now has largest Diwali celebration Outside of India

Question 2

World wars

Answer 2

WW1
- 250,000 Belgian migrants

• Germans targeted socially - 1914 Aliens restriction act
• Migrants helped Britain in the war effort - Lascars

WW2
- Italians, Germans and Austrians seen as enemy aliens

• Mass Polish migration
• Chinese employed into navy

Question 3

Caribbean migrants

Answer 3

• Invited to help rebuild Britain
• Servicemen from Caribbean stayed in the UK
• Windrush
• 1948 British nationality act - commonwealth migrants given rights of British citizens

Question 4

Indian migrants

Answer 4

• India gained independence + partition led to religious and ethnic persecution
• Settled in Leicester, Bristol, Leeds
• Jobs include textiles, steel and own businesses

Question 5

Bristol

Answer 5

• High Caribbean migration
• High rate of unemployment and migrants often living in squalid conditions
• Bristol bus boycott 1961 - challenged ban on non-white bus conductors