Unit 24 Ww2

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• In 1948 the ‘Empire Windrush’ ship bought many people from Kingston, Jamaica to England so that they could find work. • The majority were young males but there were also a number of old men and families, when they first got to England they were welcomed with open arms. • The law was written so that these new immigrants had the same full rights as current English residents this also encouraged them to move along with filling vacancies in the hospital and transport services that had been a problem since after the war. • The immigration was then made more widespread which meant many North England and London textiles firms took on people from India and Pakistan. • In the late 1950s people started to react to the sudden influx of immigration with ‘no…show more content…
• As a result of the Salmon report they recognised they should control the immigration leading to them introducing the commonwealth immigration act 1962 to control immigration into Britain. Many people saw it as being racist as it would restrict entrants of their ethnic origins. • The Labour party opposed the Commonwealth Immigration act but in 1968 imposed their own. Both parties accepted they needed to limit the number of foreigners allowed to immigrate to England. As a result of the Immigration act the two years before it was put into place people fled to England in a hurry which led to many people wanting a full block of the number of those entering. Between 1960-62 over 230,000 commonwealth citizens
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