James Hampshire explores the politics of immigration in postwar Britain and shows how ideas of race, demography and belonging intertwined to shape immigration policy. It is the first book to explain immigration in terms of the politics of demographic governance - how states manage and regulate their populations - and provides a much needed historical context to current debates. In addition, the book develops new perspectives on the ways in which racialized ideas influenced politics and policy-making.

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University of Sussex, UK

James Hampshire

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JAMES HAMPSHIRE is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex, UK. Previously, he was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK.

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Book Title: Citizenship and Belonging
Book Subtitle: Immigration and the Politics of Demographic Governance in Postwar Britain
Authors: James Hampshire
Series Title: Migration, Minorities and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510524
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1818-5Published: 15 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51400-7Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51052-4Published: 15 April 2005
Series ISSN: 2947-2911
Series E-ISSN: 2947-292X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 252
Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Political Sociology, Migration, Political Science, Sociology, general

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

The Politics of Immigration, Race and Demographic Governance

Citizenship and Belonging: The Development of UK Immigration Policy

The Racial Demography of Immigration Controls

‘Coloured Dick Whittingtons in this Land of Socialized Gold’: Immigration and the Welfare State

‘Men Without Women’: Gender, Sex and the ‘Threat’ of Miscegenation

Public Health and Immigration Policy

The Contemporary Politics of Immigration and Demographic Change

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