Abstract
The laws on race in the United Kingdom are quite extensive and involve some legal complexities as well as raising issues of principle, policy and practice. In this chapter there is room only for an overview, but it may be worthwhile to consider how policy on race has been translated into law in the United Kingdom, some thirty years after specific legislation was first enacted.
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Munro, C. (2003). Race Laws and Policy in the United Kingdom. In: Challenging Racism in Britain and Germany. Migration, Minorities and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506206_10
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