Migrant Britain: Histories and Historiographies: Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes

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Britain has largely been in denial of its migrant past - it is often suggested that the arrivals after 1945 represent a new phenomenon and not the continuation of a much longer and deeper trend. There is also an assumption that Britain is a tolerant country towards minorities that distinguishes itself from the rest of Europe and beyond. The historian who was the first and most important to challenge this dominant view is Colin Holmes who, from the early 1970s onwards, provided a framework for a different interpretation based on detailed scholarship. This challenge came not only through his own work but also that of a 'new school' of students who studied under him and the creation of the journal Immigrants and Minorities in 1982.　 This volume not only celebrates this remarkable achievement, but explores the state of migrant historiography (including responses to migrants) in the twenty first century. Cover Endorsement Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Epigraph Table of contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Colin Holmes: An Introduction Notes SECTION 1 Historiography Introduction 1 Uncovering Traditions of Intolerance: The earlier years of Immigrants and Minorities and the ‘Sheffield School’ Notes 2 Colin Holmes and the Development of Migrant and Anti-Migrant Historiography Notes 3 Looking Beyond the Nation State: The history of global migrations after 18001 Notes 4 Class vs. Ethnicity: Concepts of migrant historiographies in Britain and (West) Germany, 1970s–1990s Ethnicity as a relic or a resource? The historiography of the Ruhrpolen Discovering the immigrant Jewish working class in Britain Conclusion Notes SECTION 2 Places and spaces Introduction Notes 5 From the Profitable Strangers to the Residents of Banglatown: An exploration of the historiography... 1 2 3 4 5 6 Notes 6 The Chinese Connection: An historiography Notes 7 The Uniqueness of London Notes 8 Spaces of Black History Notes SECTION 3 Community history Introduction Notes 9 Academic Duty and Communal Obligation Revisited1 Notes 10 Weaving Italian Experience into the British Immigration Narrative Conclusion Notes 11 Jewish Refugee Historiography: Moving beyond the celebratory? Notes 12 We Refugees?: Re-defining Britain’s East African Asians From subject to citizen Refugee creation Model minority Community versus history Conclusions Notes SECTION 4 Racisms and anti-migrant politics Introduction Notes 13 Race and Colour Revisited: White immigrants in post-war Britain White immigrants and race relations: the Irish in post-war Britain Jews and race relations in post-war Britain Conclusion Notes 14 Family Misfortunes?: Gendered perspectives on West Indian migration, welfare policies and cultural... Gendered perspectives on migration Welfare interventions in black family life Rhetoric versus reality: cultural racism, migration and black family and community life Notes 15 Inside, Outside, and In-Between: Shifting borders in British immigration and disease control Notes 16 The Evolving Historiography of the Extreme Right in Britain Notes SECTION 5 Marginal, neglected and reimagined histories Introduction 17 Gypsy/Romani Studies: A few reflections Concluding thoughts Notes 18 ‘The poorest, the most intractable, and the most permanent’ – the Invisible Nineteenth-Century Pole in Britain Introduction The invisible nineteenth-century Pole: historiography of the Polish exile The ‘Eternal Poles’: a short history of Polish emigration to Britain in the 1830s and 1840s Conclusion Notes 19 History of Asians in Britain 1600–1950 Notes 20 The Development of Transmigrant Historiography in Britain The historiographical forgetting of transmigration The broadening of the scholarly lens The joining of historiographical dots and projecting narratives beyond the academy Conclusion Notes SECTION 6 Identities 21 Underground Catholic Networks in Ireland and Britain: The case of Ribbonism before the famine and after Ribbonism spreads to Britain in the 1820s and 1830s Armagh to Stafford via Liverpool: Ribbonism in the early 1850s Conclusions Notes 22 ‘The most varied, colourful, confusing hubub in the world’: The East End, television and the documentary... The BBC and the East End Documentary television and East End, 1939 Notes 23 The Equiano Effect: Representativeness and early black British migrant testimony Notes 24 Framing Polish Migration to the UK, from the Second World War to EU Expansion The Second World War and afterwards Socialist era Post-socialist period Conclusion Notes Afterword Appendices: Colin Holmes – A life and career 1. Colin Holmes: publications Current work Publications Books: Edited books Contributions to books Pamphlets Bibliographical studies Journal articles Newspaper articles Academic blog 2. The Sheffield School – Colin Holmes postgraduate supervision At Northumbria At Sheffield 3. Colin Holmes interview with Alan Dein 21 February 2017 Name Index Place Index Subject Index