The Rights of Ethnic Minorities PART 4

Question 1

what act was passed in 1948

Answer 1

british Nationality Act which gave all 800 million commonwealth citizens the chance to come to their ‘mother country’ and gain citizenship

Question 2

Empire Windrush 1948

Answer 2

empire wind rush ship docked near London 1948

-500 people on board

Question 3

why were immigrants encouraged to come to Britain

Answer 3

• at first it was only people who had fought alongside Britain in wars
• many other people keen to see country that had ruled them for so long
• many countries were starting too become independent after WW2 so Britain set out to gain more control

Question 4

what did the government offer

Answer 4

interest free loans so that people could afford to travel to the Uk

Question 5

what did Britain need immigrants for in terms of labour

Answer 5

• there was a shortage of labour for low paying unskilled jobs in Britain
• Britain was attempting to rebuild country after war so recruited ppl from Barbados and Jamaica to drive buses, and trains

Question 6

main argument as to why Britain encouraged immigrants

Answer 6

secure relations in case they needed them again

Question 7

The Immigrant experience:

-Where did immigrants live and what difficulties did they face in housing

Answer 7

• poor working class areas of Britain cities where rent was more affordable
• many landlords refused to rent property to immigrants

Question 8

The Immigrant experience:

-what did many young Caribbeans plan to do with money they had earned

Answer 8

-send it back to their families

Question 9

The Immigrant experience:

-what did a surge of young black men in communities cause

Answer 9

• white flight movement
• -> groups of white men such as the ‘teddy boys’ claimed the young black men were stealing their women – tensions exploded in the Notting Hill riots 1958

Question 10

The Immigrant experience:

-what jobs did more skilled immigrants gain

Answer 10

-immigrants from the Indian sub contient were highly skilled doctors who went to work for the NHS

Question 11

The Immigrant experience:

-what happened in Smethwick W.midlands 1965

Answer 11

• immigranst gained support of Malcolm X who visited area in 1965 in a protest against housing policy towards immigrants
• irony was that Britain had boasted about Nazi fascism yet they allowed discrimination in their own country

Question 12

Government response

Answer 12

• by 1958 notting race riots had caused dozens of arrests injuries and damage
• government responded by introducing acts

Question 13

Government response

2 main aims

Answer 13

• tackle racial discrimination that had developed

- control the number of immigrants coming into the country

Question 14

Government response

-two acts introduced when and why

Answer 14

1962 and 1968

some historians believe that the second was to prevent the arrival 200,000 Asians coming to England from Kenya