Theme 3 Flashcards
48.000 people entered UK vs 300 in
2022 2018
UK received 84.000 asylum seekers (increasing number since the last 20 years)
2023
Leave want to tack back control
2016
Rwanda plan
2022 Send migrant who seek asylum to Rwanda
New treaty with Rwanda
2023 migrant can refuse only if their liberty or safety is threatened
Windrush scandal
Spring 2018 April
Migrant who arrived legally between 1948-71 will be considered illegal if they don’t provide official documents
Windrush ?
Boat who brought migrant in 1948 for the reconstruction of Britain ≈500.000
47.000 will be affected by the rule
System of compensation
2019 only minorities received the payment 5 years after
Hostile environment
Check your official status, if not you’re refused health care, housing, jobs…+ vans passing in town with a moto: go back home or face arrest
Illegal immigration bill
2023 By suella Braverman: those arriving in UK are gonna be sent back and refused the right to seek asylum and seek british citizenship
Unlawful plan
June 2022 1st flight canceled because Rwanda = not a safe country
Ethnicity
Broad concept which combine nationality races languages religions and customs
Broader than race who only refers as physical differences
British nationality act
1948 allow free circulation BUT racial attitude started
Racial riots in Notting Hill City
1958 murder of a black man
Common Wealth immigration act
1962 end free immigration from common wealth +only selectio of skilled workers
Immigration Act
1971
Stop primary immigration. Only secondary (reuniting families)
British national act
1981 common wealth no longer recognized as British citizens
Immigration control Act
1962 but don’t stop racism + far right groups created (right wing extremism)
Powell, rivers of blood
1968–> Britain is invadedand suicidal to allow so many people in
“It’s like watching a country busily engaged in heaping its own funeral pyre”
Race Relation Act 3 all under labour
1965:discrimination illegal in public sphere
1968:discrimination illegal in housing and employment
1976:ban direct/indirect discrimination (school,work…)
+creation of Commission For Racial Equality
Multiculturalism
All cultures and communities could be able to live together in a respectful way
British pride and issues
- being a multicultural society BUT presence of hate crime
Institutional Racism
=hate crimes + discrimination against minorities ex: white man killed black man and free without judgment
Police found out racist misogynistic homophobic
= March 2023 trust broken
–>attempts of Assimilation
Multiculturalism led to “weakening of our collective identity”
David Cameron 2011
Assimilation
Different Culture erased + notion of a collective/common value unity, nationality like in France
Part of one group or society embracing one culture
Race relation amendment act
2000 racial equity and ban of discrimination
Race and religion hatred act
2006 illegal to incite hatred against a person based on their religion (after 2001 and 2005 terrorists attacks)
Equality Act
2010 Consolidates previous anti discrimination act (include gemder sexuality disability…)
Why such repetitive Acts ?
Their existence prove that discrimination still exist no matter the law and the fight against is persistent
