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Immigrants! Today the word is loaded with our cumulative fears and prejudices, conjuring up a picture of dark aliens and refugees; the detritus of other, less developed or less fortunate nations who might pose a threat to our own stable society and culture. But the word is not only emotive, it is also double-edged. Immigrants are, in a sense, always exiles, emigrants forced by circumstances to leave their own homes for the adventure of life in another country.
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Banton (ed.), White and Coloured (Boston, 1976); Colin Brock (ed.), The Caribbean in Europe (London, 1986); Ann Dummett (ed.), Towards a Just Immigration Policy (London, 1986); Peter Fryer, Staying Power. The History of Black People in Britain (London, 1984); Griffith et al., Coloured Immigrants in Britain (Oxford, 1960); Dilip Hiro, Black British/White British (London, 1971).
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Gilkes, M. (1988). The Dark Strangers. In: Smith, L.M. (eds) The Making of Britain. The Making of Britain. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19180-2_11
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