Defining British Citizenship: Empire, Commonwealth and Modern Britain

ISBN-13: 9780714653365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 256 str.

Rieko Karatani;Karatani Rieko

Opis

This work seeks to explain the immigration and citizenship policies in Britain that repeatedly postponed the creation of British citizenship until 1981. Existing works concentrated on the reasons for the racially discriminatory policy after World War II, analysing Britain's domestic constitutional system and the political manoeuvring between political parties or between policymakers and the public. In contrast, this volume looks at the alternative citizenships of British subjecthood and Commonwealth citizenship, and demonstrates how the complex rules of citizenship and immigration were devised in response to the need to build and transform those global institutions, the British empire and later the Commonwealth.

Spis treści

Understanding citizenship; the development of British subjecthood before the 20th century; the common code system - Britain and the dominions in the pre-Second World War period; Commonwealth citizenship - from the British Nationality Act 1948 to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962; emerging national citizenship through immigration control - from the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 to the Immigration Act 1971; epilogue - an appraisal of the British Nationality Act 1981; conclusion; appendices.

O autorze

Rieko Karantani