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The story of the politics of migration from the nineteenth century onwards that we have told in the previous chapter has shown us that migration and race were contested issues long before the arrival of large numbers of black colonial migrants in the period since 1945. From the response to Irish, Jewish and early black migration we have seen that the response of political institutions to the arrival of these groups was complex and not uniform. The response to Irish migration, despite a degree of opposition and violent confrontations was markedly different from the attempts to exclude and control Jewish and black migrants. There was also a more limited political mobilisation in defence of the interests of these groups.
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There are no up-to-date studies of the politics of immigration since 1945. Two studies worth looking at are G. Freeman (1979) and Z. Layton-Henry (1984), though they are limited in their coverage. Other studies widely referred to are: P. Foot (1965); R. Miles and A. Phizacklea (1984); and A. Sivanandan (1982). The socio-legal context is covered fully in I.A. Macdonald (1983).
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Solomos, J. (1989). The Politics of Immigration since 1945. In: Race and Racism in Contemporary Britain. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20187-7_3
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