IMMIGRATION, NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE UK

In: New political science: a journal of politics & culture, Band 16, S. 91-100

Abstract

THE AUTHOR FOCUSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, SKETCHING THE BACKGROUND TO THE PRESENT SITUATION REGARDING PATTERNS OF IMMIGRANT SETTLEMENT IN WESTERN EUROPE AS A WHOLE, AND DOCUMENTED CONFLICTS OVER CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS OF THIS POPULATION. 1981, 1985, AND 1987 ARE YEARS CITED IN WHICH PREDOMINANTLY YOUNG PEOPLE, BOTH BLACK AND WHITE, CONFRONTED THE POLICE IN THE INNER CITY AREAS OF MAJOR TOWNS IN THE U.K. IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ACTS SPRINGING FROM MULTIRACIAL AND MULTICULTURAL INJUSTICE. THE TERMS IMMIGRANT, INTEGRATION, ETHNIC MINORITIES, AND EQUALY OPPORTUNITIES ARE EXAMINED. BRITISH NATIONALITY IS DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF COLONIAL HISTORY. AN INTERPRETATION OF THE 1981 BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT IS PROVIDED.