Monday, 22 April 2013

Racialisation of Britain:

The black people that had emigrated over to Britain to find work had come in large numbers and now it seemed that they were taking too many jobs. For this reason, Britain began to look for reasons to fire and stop them from coming to the country in the first place.

It was declared that ' black immigration into Britain is a fundamentally bad thing, and it should be prevented at all costs, except, of course, where the system would literally cease to function without it' - problem being that Black people had been doing these jobs for years now and it would mean that less white people were trained for them. For this reason, the black population of Britain was needed at this time for Britain to build up it's economy

The harmful effect  Black immigration was having on the 'racial character of the English people' was worrying those in Britain - Black immigrants were being blamed for all the problems in Britain at this time

Britain was using racialisation as an excuse to use the Black immigrants when they were needed for work reasons, but also used them to blame the crime, employment and social difficulties it was facing.

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