British Labour Party's patriotic politics on immigration and race, 1900-1968
This thesis examines the British Labour Partyâs understanding of, and approaches to, domestic race issues from 1900 to the 1960s. Its focus is to compare the partyâs race politics for 1900-1939 to that for post-1945 New Commonwealth immigration, thereby finding continuities in the Labour Partyâs race politics in a longer-term perspective. It does so by exploring the partyâs position on: the Eastern European Jewish immigration and the 1905 Aliens Act; the 1919 Aliens Act; the employment of coloured seamen on British merchant ships; the anti-Semitism practiced in East London by the British Fascists. After this, it discusses what continuities and changes appear in the Labourâs policies towards post-1945 non-white immigrants until the 1960s. It will argue that the basis of Labourâs race politics was patriotic concerns which developed into different directions in each case. On the one hand, the Labour Partyâs official position of opposing immigration laws was based on liberal and tolerant British tradition, with a change in emphasis occurring after the First World War to socialist internationalism. Likewise, anti-Semitism of British fascists in the 1930s was criticised as a foreign assault on Britainâs
Park, Eunjae
British Labour Party's patriotic politics on immigration and race, 1900-1968. This thesis examines the British Labour Partyâs understanding of, and approaches to, domestic race issues from 1900 to the 1960s. Its focus is to compare the partyâs race politics for 1900-1939 to that for post-1945 New Commonwealth immigration, thereby finding continuities in the Labour Partyâs race politics in a longer-term perspective. It does so by exploring the partyâs position on: the Eastern European Jewish immigration and the 1905 Aliens Act; the 1919 Aliens Act; the employment of coloured seamen on British merchant ships; the anti-Semitism practiced in East London by the British Fascists. After this, it discusses what continuities and changes appear in the Labourâs policies towards post-1945 non-white immigrants until the 1960s. It will argue that the basis of Labourâs race politics was patriotic concerns which developed into different directions in each case. On the one hand, the Labour Partyâs official position of opposing immigration laws was based on liberal and tolerant British tradition, with a change in emphasis occurring after the First World War to socialist internationalism. Likewise, anti-Semitism of British fascists in the 1930s was criticised as a foreign assault on Britainâs
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