Settlers At the End of Empire - Race Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia United Kingdom

Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994. While South Africa and Rhodesia, like other settler colonies, had a long history of restricting the entry of migrants of colour, in the 1960s under existential threat and after abandoning formal ties with the Commonwealth they began to actively recruit white migrants, the majority of whom were British. At the same time, with the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the British government began to implement restrictions aimed at slowing the migration of British subjects of colour. In all three nations, these policies were aimed at the preservation of nations imagined as white, revealing the persistence of the racial ideologies of empire across the era of decolonisation.

About the author

Jean P. Smith is Lecturer in British Imperial History at King's College London.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Smith
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781526182302
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-8230-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Africa / South / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Republic of South Africa, Southern Africa, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination